From WordNet (r) 2.0 (August 2003) [wn]:
bandy
adj : have legs that curve outward at the knees [syn:
bandy-legged, bowed, bowleg, bowlegged]
v 1: toss or strike a ball back and forth
2: exchange blows
3: discuss lightly; "We bandied around these difficult
questions" [syn: kick around]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Bandy \Ban"dy\, v. i.
To contend, as at some game in which each strives to drive
the ball his own way.
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Fit to bandy with thy lawless sons. --Shak.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Bandy \Ban"dy\, a.
Bent; crooked; curved laterally, esp. with the convex side
outward; as, a bandy leg.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Bandy \Ban"dy\ (b[a^]n"d[y^]), n. [Telugu ba[.n][dsdot]i.]
A carriage or cart used in India, esp. one drawn by bullocks.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Bandy \Ban"dy\, n.; pl. Bandies (-d[i^]z). [Cf. F. band['e],
p. p. of bander to bind, to bend (a bow), to bandy, fr.
bande. See Band, n.]
1. A club bent at the lower part for striking a ball at play;
a hockey stick. --Johnson.
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2. The game played with such a club; hockey; shinney; bandy
ball.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Bandy \Ban"dy\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Bandied (b[a^]n"d[-e]d);
p. pr. & vb. n. Bandying.]
1. To beat to and fro, as a ball in playing at bandy.
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Like tennis balls bandied and struck upon us . . .
by rackets from without. --Cudworth.
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2. To give and receive reciprocally; to exchange. "To bandy
hasty words." --Shak.
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3. To toss about, as from person to person; to circulate
freely in a light manner; -- of ideas, facts, rumors, etc.
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Let not obvious and known truth be bandied about in
a disputation. --I. Watts.
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