Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To toss or throw back and forth.
- transitive verb To hit (a ball, for example) back and forth.
- transitive verb To give and receive (words, for example); exchange.
- transitive verb To discuss in a casual or frivolous manner.
- adjective Bowed or bent in an outward curve.
- noun A game resembling field hockey but played on ice by skaters.
- noun A stick, bent at one end, used in playing this game.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To throw or strike to and fro, or from side to side, as a ball in play.
- To toss aside; drive or send off.
- To toss about, as from man to man; pass from one to another, or back and forth.
- To give and take; exchange, especially contentiously: as, to
bandy compliments; to bandy words, reproaches, etc. - To discuss; debate.
- To band together; league: chiefly reflexive.
- To bound, as a ball that is struck.
- To form a band or league.
- To contend; strive, whether in emulation or in enmity.
- noun A particular manner of playing tennis, the nature of which is not now known.
- noun A stroke with a racket, or a ball so struck; a return at tennis.
- noun A game played with a bent club, better known as hockey, and, in the United States, shinny (which see).
- noun A club bent at the end, used in the game of hockey or bandy-ball; a shinny or shinty.
- Having a bend or crook outward: said of a person's legs: as, his legs are quite bandy.
- Limp; without sufficient substance: said of bad cloth.
- noun A kind of cart or buggy much used in India. See extracts.
- Marked with bands or stripes.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A carriage or cart used in India, esp. one drawn by bullocks.
- noun A club bent at the lower part for striking a ball at play; a hockey stick.
- noun The game played with such a club; hockey; shinney; bandy ball.
- intransitive verb To contend, as at some game in which each strives to drive the ball his own way.
- transitive verb To beat to and fro, as a ball in playing at bandy.
- transitive verb To give and receive reciprocally; to exchange.
- transitive verb To toss about, as from person to person; to circulate freely in a light manner; -- of ideas, facts, rumors, etc.
- adjective Bent; crooked; curved laterally, esp. with the convex side outward.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective
Bowlegged , orbending outward at theknees ; as inbandy legged . - verb To give and
receive reciprocally ; toexchange . - verb To use or
pass aboutcasually . - verb To throw or strike
reciprocally , like balls in sports. - noun sports A winter sport played on ice, from which
ice hockey has developed.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb discuss lightly
- adjective have legs that curve outward at the knees
- verb exchange blows
- verb toss or strike a ball back and forth
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Golf and hockey are also played, and "bandy" -- _i. e._, hockey on the ice -- is a favourite winter sport.
Denmark M. Pearson Thomson
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There is a kind of exercise that they have among them much like that which boys call bandy in English. 135 Likewise, they have the exercise of football. 136 In this they only use the foot forcibly to carry the ball from the one to the other.
Colonial Children 1902
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Highlanders called him, Gow Chrom, that is, the bandy-legged smith --- fought well, and contributed greatly to the fate of the battle, without knowing which side he fought on; --- so, ` ` To fight for your own hand, like
Rob Roy 1887
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Highlanders called him, _Gow Chrom, _ that is, the bandy-legged smith -- fought well, and contributed greatly to the fate of the battle, without knowing which side he fought on; -- so, "To fight for your own hand, like Henry Wynd," passed into a proverb.
Rob Roy — Complete Walter Scott 1801
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Highlanders called him, _Gow Chrom, _ that is, the bandy-legged smith -- fought well, and contributed greatly to the fate of the battle, without knowing which side he fought on; -- so, "To fight for your own hand, like Henry Wynd," passed into a proverb.
Rob Roy — Volume 02 Walter Scott 1801
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The name "bandy" is sometimes applied also to shinney or shinty and in
Outdoor Sports and Games Claude H. Miller
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Here they have "bandy" matches, ski-ing, and tobogganing, as well as other winter games.
Denmark M. Pearson Thomson
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Chrom, that is, the bandy-legged smith — fought well, and contributed greatly to the fate of the battle, without knowing which side he fought on; — so, “To fight for your own hand, like Henry
Rob Roy 2005
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And his legs are what his regiment call bandy, oh! "
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Wynd -- or, as the Highlanders called him, _Gow Chrom_, that is, the bandy-legged smith -- fought well, and contributed greatly to the fate of the battle, without knowing which side he fought on; -- so, 'To fight for your ain hand, like Henry Wynd,' passed into a proverb. "
The Proverbs of Scotland Alexander Hislop 1836
reesetee commented on the word bandy
A carriage or cart used in India and Sri Lanka, especially one drawn by bullocks.
October 22, 2008