bandy

A carriage or cart used in India, esp. one drawn by bullocks. 1. A club bent at the lower part for striking a ball at play; a hockey stick. Johnson. 2. The game played with such a club; hockey; shinney; bandy ball. 1. To beat to and fro, as a ball in playing at bandy. Like tennis balls bandied and struck upon us . . . by rackets from without. Cudworth. 2. To give and receive reciprocally; to exchange. "To bandy hasty words." Shak. 3. To toss about, as from man to man; to agitate. Let not obvious and known truth be bandied about in a disputation. I. Watts. To content, as at some game in which each strives to drive the ball his own way. Fit to bandy with thy lawless sons. Shak. Bent; crooked; curved laterally, esp. with the convex side outward; as, a bandy leg.

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