What does "bandy" mean?
Bandy: A club bent at the lower part for striking a ball at play; a hockey stick. Johnson.
Additional senses
- 2.The game played with such a club; hockey; shinney; bandy ball.
- 3.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.
- 4.To give and receive reciprocally; to exchange. "To bandy hasty words." Shak.
- 5.To toss about, as from man to man; to agitate. Let not obvious and known truth be bandied about in a disputation. I. Watts.
- 6.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.
- 7.Bent; crooked; curved laterally, esp. with the convex side outward; as, a bandy leg.
Sources
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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