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.
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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.
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A kind of cart or buggy much used in India. See extracts.
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.
Marked with bands or stripes.