Crossword clues for bandy
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Bandy \Ban"dy\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Bandied (b[a^]n"d[-e]d); p. pr. & vb. n. Bandying.]
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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. To give and receive reciprocally; to exchange. ``To bandy hasty words.''
--Shak.-
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.
--I. Watts.
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.
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 a club; hockey; shinney; bandy ball.
Bandy \Ban"dy\, v. i. To contend, as at some game in which each strives to drive the ball his own way.
Fit to bandy with thy lawless sons.
--Shak.
Bandy \Ban"dy\, a. Bent; crooked; curved laterally, esp. with the convex side outward; as, a bandy leg.
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 a 17c. Irish game, precursor of field hockey, played with curved a stick (also called a bandy), hence bandy-legged (1680s).
Wiktionary
Etymology 1 vb. 1 To give and receive reciprocally; to exchange. 2 To use or pass about casually. Etymology 2
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bowlegged, or bending outward at the knees; as in bandy legged. Etymology 3
n. 1 (context sports English) A winter sport played on ice, from which ice hockey developed. 2 A club bent at the lower part for striking a ball at play; a hockey stick. Etymology 4
n. A carriage or cart used in India, especially one drawn by bullocks.
WordNet
v. toss or strike a ball back and forth
exchange blows
discuss lightly; "We bandied around these difficult questions" [syn: kick around]
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 sport is considered a form of hockey and has a common background with association football, ice hockey and field hockey. Like football, the game is normally played in halves of 45 minutes each, there are eleven players on each team, and the bandy field is about the same size as a football pitch. It is played on ice like ice hockey, but like field hockey, players use bowed sticks and a small ball.
A variant of bandy, rink bandy, is played to the same rules but on a field the size of an ice hockey rink and with fewer people on each team. Bandy is also the predecessor of floorball, which was invented when people started playing with plastic bandy-shaped sticks and light balls when running on the floors of indoor gym halls.
Bandy is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
- Daniel Bandy
- Jett Bandy
- Lou Bandy (Lodewijk Ferdinand Dieben)
- Moe Bandy
- Way Bandy
Bandy is a winter sport.
Bandy may also refer to:
- Bandy (carriage), a cart used in India and Sri Lanka
- Bandy (surname), a surname
- Bandy, Virginia, an unincorporated community in the United States
- Bandy-bandy, a snake
- Bandy Island, Antarctica
- for so called "bandy legs" or "bandiness", see genu varum
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.