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ban⋅dy

[ban-dee]

verb, -died, -dy⋅ing, adjective, noun, plural -dies.

–verb (used with object)

1.	to pass from one to another or back and forth; give and take; trade; exchange: to bandy blows; to bandy words.

2.	to throw or strike to and fro or from side to side, as a ball in tennis.

3.	to circulate freely: to bandy gossip.

–adjective

4.	(of legs) having a bend or crook outward; bowed: a new method for correcting bandy legs.

–noun

5.	an early form of tennis.

6.	Chiefly British. (formerly) hockey or shinny.

7.	Obsolete. a hockey or shinny stick.

Origin:
1570–80; perh. < Sp bandear to conduct, bandy, orig. help, serve as member of a band of men. See band ¹

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Language Translation for : Bandy

Spanish:

zambo, estevado,

German:

O-…,

Japanese:

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ban·dy (bān'dē) Pronunciation Key
tr.v. ban·died, ban·dy·ing, ban·dies

1. To toss or throw back and forth.
2. To hit (a ball, for example) back and forth.
3. To give and receive (words, for example); exchange: The old friends bandied compliments when they met.
4. To discuss in a casual or frivolous manner: bandy an idea about.
1. To give and receive (words, for example); exchange: The old friends bandied compliments when they met.
2. To discuss in a casual or frivolous manner: bandy an idea about.

adj. Bowed or bent in an outward curve: bandy legs.

n. pl. ban·dies Sports

A game resembling field hockey but played on ice by skaters.
A stick, bent at one end, used in playing this game.

[Origin unknown.]

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bandy (v.)

1577, "to strike back and forth," from M.Fr. bander, from root of band (2). The sense apparently evolved from "join together to oppose," to opposition itself, to "exchanging blows," then metaphorically, to volleying in tennis. Bandy was a 17c. Irish game, precursor of field hockey, played with curved sticks, hence bandy-legged (1688).

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bandy
adjective
1.	have legs that curve outward at the knees
verb
1.	toss or strike a ball back and forth
2.	exchange blows
3.	discuss lightly; "We bandied around these difficult questions"

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Bandy, VA Zip code(s): 24602

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Bandy

Band\ (b[a^]nd), n. [OE. band, bond, Icel. band; akin to G., Sw., & D. band, OHG. bant, Goth. banti, Skr. bandha a binding, bandh to bind, for bhanda, bhandh, also to E. bend, bind. In sense 7, at least, it is fr. F. bande, from OHG. bant. [root]90 See Bind, v. t., and cf. Bend, Bond, 1st Bandy.]

1. A fillet, strap, or any narrow ligament with which a thing is encircled, or fastened, or by which a number of things are tied, bound together, or confined; a fetter.

Every one's bands were loosed. --Acts xvi. 26.

2. (Arch.) (a) A continuous tablet, stripe, or series of ornaments, as of carved foliage, of color, or of brickwork, etc. (b) In Gothic architecture, the molding, or suite of moldings, which encircles the pillars and small shafts.

3. That which serves as the means of union or connection between persons; a tie. "To join in Hymen's bands." --Shak.

4. A linen collar or ruff worn in the 16th and 17th centuries.

5. pl. Two strips of linen hanging from the neck in front as part of a clerical, legal, or academic dress.

6. A narrow strip of cloth or other material on any article of dress, to bind, strengthen, ornament, or complete it. "Band and gusset and seam." --Hood.

7. A company of persons united in any common design, especially a body of armed men.

Troops of horsemen with his bands of foot. --Shak.

8. A number of musicians who play together upon portable musical instruments, especially those making a loud sound, as certain wind instruments (trumpets, clarinets, etc.), and drums, or cymbals.

9. (Bot.) A space between elevated lines or ribs, as of the fruits of umbelliferous plants.

10. (Zo["o]l.) A stripe, streak, or other mark transverse to the axis of the body.

11. (Mech.) A belt or strap.

12. A bond [Obs.] "Thy oath and band." --Shak.

13. Pledge; security. [Obs.] --Spenser.

Band saw, a saw in the form of an endless steel belt, with teeth on one edge, running over wheels.

Bandy

Ban"dy\, n. [Telugu bandi.] A carriage or cart used in India, esp. one drawn by bullocks.

Bandy

Ban"dy\, n.; pl. Bandies. [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.

2. The game played with such a club; hockey; shinney; bandy ball.

Bandy

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.

Bandy

Ban"dy\, v. i. 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.

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