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Bandy

Bandy Meaning & Definition
Bandy Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Bandy?

[adj] have legs that curve outward at the knees
[v] toss or strike a ball back and forth, as in tennis, hockey, etc.
[v] discuss lightly; "We bandied around these difficult questions"
[v] exchange blows

Synonyms | Synonyms for Bandy: bandy-legged | bowed | bowleg | bowlegged | kick around | unfit

Related Terms | Find terms related to Bandy: alternate | answer | arched | arciform | arclike | arcual | bandy-legged | banter | be quits with | blemished | bloated | bowed | bowlegged | bowlike | change | chuck | club-footed | commute | compensate | concave | convex | cooperate | counterchange | defaced | deformed | disfigured | dwarfed | embowed | exchange | flatfooted | flip | get back at | get even with | gibbose | gibbous | give and take | grotesque | humpbacked | humped | humpy | hunched | hunchy | ill-made | ill-proportioned | ill-shaped | interchange | knock-kneed | logroll | malformed | marred | misbegotten | misproportioned | misshapen | monstrous | mutilated | out of shape | oxbow | pay back | permute | pigeon-toed | pitch | pug-nosed | rachitic | reciprocate | repay | requite | respond | retaliate | retort | return | return the compliment | rickety | simous | snub-nosed | stumpy | swap | swaybacked | switch | talipedic | throw | toss | trade | transpose | truncated | vaulted

See Also | discuss | fight | play | shuttlecock | struggle | talk over

Bandy In Webster's Dictionary

\Ban"dy\, n. [Telugu bandi.] A carriage or cart used in India, esp. one drawn by bullocks.
\Ban"dy\, n.; pl. {Bandies}. [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. 2. The game played with such a club; hockey; shinney; bandy ball.
\Ban"dy\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Bandied} (?); p. pr. & vb. n. {Bandying}.] 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.
\Ban"dy\, v. i. 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.
\Ban"dy\, a. Bent; crooked; curved laterally, esp. with the convex side outward; as, a bandy leg.

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