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BANDY
bandy, bandy-legged, bowed, bowleg, bowlegged
(adjective) have legs that curve outward at the knees
bandy, kick around
(verb) discuss lightly; “We bandied around these difficult questions”
bandy
(verb) exchange blows
bandy
(verb) toss or strike a ball back and forth
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Proper noun
Bandy (plural Bandys)
A surname.
Statistics
• According to the 2010 United States Census, Bandy is the 4133rd most common surname in the United States, belonging to 8582 individuals. Bandy is most common among White (79.54%) and Black/African American (14.43%) individuals.
Anagrams
• Danby
Etymology 1
Verb
bandy (third-person singular simple present bandies, present participle bandying, simple past and past participle bandied).
(transitive) To give and receive reciprocally; to exchange.
(transitive) To use or pass about casually.
(transitive) To throw or strike reciprocally, like balls in sports.
(obsolete, intransitive) To fight (with or against someone).
Etymology 2
Adjective
bandy (comparative bandier, superlative bandiest)
Bowlegged, or bending outward at the knees; as in bandy-legged.
Etymology 3
Noun
bandy (uncountable)
(sports) A winter sport played on ice, from which ice hockey developed.
A club bent at the lower part for striking a ball at play; a hockey stick.
Etymology 4
Noun
bandy (plural bandies)
A carriage or cart used in India, especially one drawn by bullocks.
Anagrams
• Danby
Source: Wiktionary
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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