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bandy

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WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
adj. have legs that curve outward at the knees [syn: bandy-legged , bowed , bowleg , bowlegged ] [also: bandied , bandiest , bandier ]

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Bandy is a team winter sport played on ice , in which skaters use sticks to direct a ball into the opposing team's goal. Based on the number of participating athletes, bandy is the world's second most popular winter sport. Only ice hockey is more popular. ...

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
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.] A club bent at the lower part for striking a ball at play; a hockey stick. --Johnson. The game played with such ...

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
I. adjective EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ His two drivers are bandy , bleach-blond Dan Runte and tall, woolly haired Eric Meagher. ▪ I had a boss-eye and buck-teeth and bandy legs ... but my mummy loved me. II. verb EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ A price of £10,000 has ...

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1570s, "to strike back and forth," from Middle French bander , from root of band (n.2). The sense apparently evolved from "join together to oppose," to opposition itself, to "exchanging blows," then metaphorically, to volleying in tennis. Bandy (n.) was ...

Usage examples of bandy.

After all, if we coolly consider those arguments which have been bandied about, and retorted with such eagerness and acrimony in the house of commons, and divest them of those passionate tropes and declamatory metaphors which the spirit of opposition alone had produced, we shall find very little left for the subject of dispute, and sometimes be puzzled to discover any material source of disagreement.

Not only was the slogan remembered by those who saw EMBRACE advertised, and those who bought it, but-to the delight of all concerned with sales-it was bandied around to become a national catchphrase.

Large heads, broad backs, beards which would reach to their protruding navels if not whipped away by wind, faces neither grim nor alarmed but intent and determined, the Bandies came at the gallop.

Your subjects, bandied about between France and England, will throw themselves into the arms of France, and will demand to be united to her.

I began to think we should never reach the town itself, for first my guide would sit down on a green stream-bank, his feet a-dangle in the clear water, and bandy wit with a passing boat as though there were nothing else in the world to think of.

Graves, it is apparent that this bandying of charges has no resolution.

Simpson is a natural base-ball pitcher, he has an acquired swerve at bandy, and he is a lepidopterist of considerable charm.

After some rough bandying between the Monster and the Chorus, the strangers are discovered: and Silenus, to save himself, turns traitor, and tells Polyphemus how they have beaten him because he would not let them steal, also what dire woes they were going to work upon Polyphemus.

In truth, Magla had bandied several names about, each more ridiculous than the last, but had settled on Salita once she decided the plump Tairen had the best chance of being raised to a chair.

Now Nada told Umslopogaas of those words which she had bandied with Zinita, and the Slaughterer was troubled.

It was not a thing that could be bandied about when convenient or slipped on and off like clothing to match changes in the weather.

Unfreezing, his left-behind body would rot while his soul was steeped in hellfire, bandied around, a plaything for monsters forever.

White Mason was a quiet, comfortable-looking person in a loose tweed suit, with a clean-shaved, ruddy face, a stoutish body, and powerful bandy legs adorned with gaiters, looking like a small farmer, a retired gamekeeper, or anything upon earth except a very favourable specimen of the provincial criminal officer.

Fate to play bandy with me, and if it sent me supperless to bed, why, here was restitution in the way of breakfast.

But it would always throw doubt on Limerick, and on her own ethics, especially since Trussell was bandying her name about as if she were little more than a common thief.