Bandy /(băn"dy̆)/

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

pl. Bandies ((-dĭz))

1. A club bent at the lower part for striking a ball at play; a hockey stick.
2. The game played with such a club; hockey; shinney; bandy ball.

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.

2. To give and receive reciprocally; to exchange.
3. To toss about, as from person to person; to circulate freely in a light manner; -- of ideas, facts, rumors, etc.

   Let not obvious and known truth be bandied about in a disputation.

1. To contend, as at some game in which each strives to drive the ball his own way.

   Fit to bandy with thy lawless sons.

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