Bandy

bandy
    adj 1: have legs that curve outward at the knees [syn: {bandy},
           {bandy-legged}, {bowed}, {bowleg}, {bowlegged}]
    v 1: toss or strike a ball back and forth
    2: exchange blows
    3: discuss lightly; "We bandied around these difficult
       questions" [syn: {bandy}, {kick around}]
    

Bandy \Ban"dy\, v. i.
   To contend, as at some game in which each strives to drive
   the ball his own way.
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         Fit to bandy with thy lawless sons.      --Shak.
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Bandy \Ban"dy\, a.
   Bent; crooked; curved laterally, esp. with the convex side
   outward; as, a bandy leg.
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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.
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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.
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   2. The game played with such a club; hockey; shinney; bandy
      ball.
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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.
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            Like tennis balls bandied and struck upon us . . .
            by rackets from without.              --Cudworth.
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   2. To give and receive reciprocally; to exchange. "To bandy
      hasty words." --Shak.
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   3. To toss about, as from person to person; to circulate
      freely in a light manner; -- of ideas, facts, rumors, etc.
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            Let not obvious and known truth be bandied about in
            a disputation.                        --I. Watts.
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Bandy, VA
  Zip code(s): 24602
    

85 Moby Thesaurus words for "bandy":
      alternate, answer, arched, arciform, arclike, arcual, bandy-legged,
      banter, be quits with, blemished, bloated, bowed, bowlegged,
      bowlike, change, chuck, club-footed, commute, compensate, concave,
      convex, cooperate, counterchange, defaced, deformed, disfigured,
      dwarfed, embowed, exchange, flatfooted, flip, get back at,
      get even with, gibbose, gibbous, give and take, grotesque,
      humpbacked, humped, humpy, hunched, hunchy, ill-made,
      ill-proportioned, ill-shaped, interchange, knock-kneed, logroll,
      malformed, marred, misbegotten, misproportioned, misshapen,
      monstrous, mutilated, out of shape, oxbow, pay back, permute,
      pigeon-toed, pitch, pug-nosed, rachitic, reciprocate, repay,
      requite, respond, retaliate, retort, return, return the compliment,
      rickety, simous, snub-nosed, stumpy, swap, swaybacked, switch,
      talipedic, throw, toss, trade, transpose, truncated, vaulted