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Definition of Bandy
1. Adjective. Have legs that curve outward at the knees.
2. Verb. Toss or strike a ball back and forth.
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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