Ban"dy (băn"d&ybreve;), n. [Telugu
ba&nsdot;&dsdot;i.] A carriage or cart used in India, esp. one
drawn by bullocks.
Ban"dy, n.; pl.
Bandies (-d&ibreve;z). [Cf. F. bandé, 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 (-d&ibreve;d); 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 contend, 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.
