Bandy

Part of speech: noun (n.)

A carriage or cart used in India, esp. one drawn by bullocks.

Part of speech: noun (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.

Part of speech: verb (v.)

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.

Part of speech: verb (v.)

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.

Part of speech: adjective (a.)

Bent; crooked; curved laterally, esp. with the convex side outward; as, a bandy leg.