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adjective

Bandy adj. Bent; crooked; curved laterally, esp. with the convex side outward; as, a bandy leg.

noun

Bandy n. A carriage or cart used in India, esp. one drawn by bullocks.

Bandy n. (pl. bandies)

A club bent at the lower part for striking a ball at play; a hockey stick.

The game played with such a club; hockey; shinney; bandy ball.

verb

Bandy v. t. (past & past part. bandied; pres. part. bandying)

To beat to and fro, as a ball in playing at bandy. "Like tennis balls bandied and struck upon us... by rackets from without."

To give and receive reciprocally; to exchange. "To bandy hasty words."

To toss about, as from person to person; to circulate freely in a light manner; of ideas, facts, rumors, etc. "Let not obvious and known truth be bandied about in a disputation."

Bandy 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."

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"Bandy" Quotes from Famous Books

... ground; for a high hoof keeps the "frog," (6) as it is called, well off the ground; whereas a low hoof treads equally with the stoutest and softest part of the foot alike, the gait resembling that of a bandy-legged man. (7) "You may tell a good foot clearly by the ring," says Simon happily; (8) for the hollow hoof rings like a cymbal against the solid ...

— On Horsemanship • Xenophon

... men that wear skirts like women. I remember many years ago when I was in Sister Agnes' room, of seeing some of those dreadful pictures of skirts and bandy-legs. They are unseemly things for men to wear; it is as though one were uncivilised. I ...

— Mistress Penwick • Dutton Payne

... days later, Miranda Pryor slipped up to Ingleside, ostensibly to get some Red Cross sewing, but in reality to talk over with sympathetic Rilla troubles that were past bearing alone. She brought her dog with her—an over-fed, bandy-legged little animal very dear to her heart because Joe Milgrave had given it to her when it was a puppy. Mr. Pryor regarded all dogs with disfavour; but in those days he had looked kindly upon Joe as a suitor for Miranda's ...

— Rilla of Ingleside • Lucy Maud Montgomery

... O monstrous, what reproachfull words are these? Sat. But goe thy wayes, goe giue that changing peece, To him that flourisht for her with his Sword: A Valliant sonne in-law thou shalt enioy: One, fit to bandy with thy lawlesse Sonnes, To ruffle in the Common-wealth ...

— The First Folio [35 Plays] • William Shakespeare

... along the yellow glazed walls. For occupants they have a soldier of the line, two artillerymen, a dragoon, and a hussar. The rest of the hospital is made up of certain old men, crack-brained and weak-bodied, some young men, rickety or bandy-legged, and a great number of soldiers—wrecks from MacMahon's army—who, after being floated on from one military hospital to another, had come to be stranded on this bank. Francis and I, we are the only ones ...

— Sac-Au-Dos - 1907 • Joris Karl Huysmans

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