BANDIER

BANDY

bandy, bandy-legged, bowed, bowleg, bowlegged

(adjective) have legs that curve outward at the knees

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Adjective

bandier

comparative form of bandy

Noun

bandier (plural bandiers)

One who bandies.

Anagrams

• Braiden, brained, debrain

Source: Wiktionary


BANDY

Ban"dy, n. Etym: [Telugu bandi.]

Definition: A carriage or cart used in India, esp. one drawn by bullocks.

Ban"dy, n.; pl. Bandies (. Etym: [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 (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.

Definition: 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.

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

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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