'Bandy' definitions:

Definition of 'bandy'

(from WordNet)
adjective
Have legs that curve outward at the knees [syn: bandy, bandy-legged, bowed, bowleg, bowlegged]
verb
Toss or strike a ball back and forth
verb
Exchange blows
verb
Discuss lightly; "We bandied around these difficult questions" [syn: bandy, kick around]

Definition of 'Bandy'

From: GCIDE
  • Bandy \Ban"dy\ (b[a^]n"d[y^]), n. [Telugu ba[.n][dsdot]i.] A carriage or cart used in India, esp. one drawn by bullocks. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Bandy'

From: GCIDE
  • Bandy \Ban"dy\, n.; pl. Bandies (-d[i^]z). [Cf. F. band['e], 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. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. The game played with such a club; hockey; shinney; bandy ball. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Bandy'

From: GCIDE
  • Bandy \Ban"dy\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Bandied (b[a^]n"d[-e]d); p. pr. & vb. n. Bandying.]
  • 1. To beat to and fro, as a ball in playing at bandy. [1913 Webster]
  • Like tennis balls bandied and struck upon us . . . by rackets from without. --Cudworth. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. To give and receive reciprocally; to exchange. "To bandy hasty words." --Shak. [1913 Webster]
  • 3. To toss about, as from person to person; to circulate freely in a light manner; -- of ideas, facts, rumors, etc. [1913 Webster]
  • Let not obvious and known truth be bandied about in a disputation. --I. Watts. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Bandy'

From: GCIDE
  • Bandy \Ban"dy\, v. i. To contend, as at some game in which each strives to drive the ball his own way. [1913 Webster]
  • Fit to bandy with thy lawless sons. --Shak. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Bandy'

From: GCIDE
  • Bandy \Ban"dy\, a. Bent; crooked; curved laterally, esp. with the convex side outward; as, a bandy leg. [1913 Webster]