\Ban"dy\, n. [Telugu bandi.]
A carriage or cart used in India, esp. one drawn by bullocks.

\Ban"dy\, n.; pl. {Bandies}. [Cf. F. band['e], p. p. of
bander to bind, to bend (a bow), to bandy, fr. bande. See
{Band}, 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.

\Ban"dy\, v. t. [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.              --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.

\Ban"dy\, v. i.
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.

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