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Definition of Bandy
1. Verb. Toss or strike a ball back and forth.
2. Adjective. Have legs that curve outward at the knees.
3. Verb. Exchange blows.
4. Verb. Discuss lightly. "We bandied around these difficult questions"
Definition of Bandy
1. n. A carriage or cart used in India, esp. one drawn by bullocks.
2. n. A club bent at the lower part for striking a ball at play; a hockey stick.
3. v. t. To beat to and fro, as a ball in playing at bandy.
4. v. i. To contend, as at some game in which each strives to drive the ball his own way.
5. a. Bent; crooked; curved laterally, esp. with the convex side outward; as, a bandy leg.
Definition of Bandy
1. Verb. To give and receive reciprocally; to exchange. ¹
2. Verb. To use or pass about casually. ¹
3. Adjective. Bowlegged, or bending outward at the knees; as in bandy legged. ¹
4. Noun. (sports) A winter sport played on ice, from which ice hockey has developed. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Bandy
1. to throw to and fro [v -DIED, -DYING, -DIES]
Medical Definition of Bandy
1. Bent; crooked; curved laterally, especially. With the convex side outward; as, a bandy leg. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bandy
Literary usage of Bandy
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Songs of the Trail by Henry Herbert Knibbs (1920)
"bandy AND THE SHORE-TRAIL ALL along the beaches in his self-sufficient solitude,
Up from San Diego to the shores of Monterey, bandy used to wander just ..."
2. The Apprenticeship Writings of Frank Norris, 1896-1898 by Frank Norris (1996)
"This story is about a certain street-car conductor named bandy Callaghan. ...
bandy had to make good the amount at the "Old Man's" office, but he remembered ..."
3. The Apprenticeship Writings of Frank Norris 1896-1898 by Frank Norris, Douglas K. Burgess, Joseph R. McElrath (1996)
"This story is about a certain street-car conductor named bandy Callaghan. ...
bandy had to make good the amount at the "Old Man's" office, but he remembered ..."
4. The Popular Science MonthlyScience (1893)
"Glasgow's bandy-legged children (5 p., 8 il.). G. Hay, 25 : 400. Hawaiian
leprosy (Misc.), 20 : 567. Heart-D. and overwork (Misc.), 3 : 779. ..."
5. The Popular Science Monthly by Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress) (1884)
"Evidently an injury cramping the growth at this time can not be remedied ; and
if the children have any tendency to become bandy-legged or knock-kneed, ..."
6. The Encyclopaedia of Sport by Frederick George Aflalo, Hedley Peek (1897)
"bandy—bandy, or Hockey on the Ice, is a similar game to hockey on the land. ...
The bandy—The bandy used is a curved ash stick of about ii inches diameter ..."
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