Bandy
Pronunciation : Ban"dy
Part of Speech : n.
Etymology : [Telugu bandi.]
Definition : Defn: A carriage or cart used in India, esp. one drawn by bullocks.
Source : Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
Pronunciation : Ban"dy
Part of Speech : n.;
Etymology : [Cf. F. band?, p.p. of bander to bind, to bend (a bow), to bandy, fr. bande. See Band, n.]
Definition : 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.
pl. Bandies (.
Source : Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
Pronunciation : Ban"dy
Part of Speech : v.
Definition : 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.
t. [imp. & p. p. Bandied (p. pr. & vb. n. Bandying.]
Source : Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
Pronunciation : Ban"dy
Part of Speech : v.
Definition : Defn: 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.
i.
Source : Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
Pronunciation : Ban"dy
Part of Speech : a.
Definition : Defn: Bent; crooked; curved laterally, esp. with the convex side outward; as, a bandy leg.
Source : Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913