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Bandy (bănd&ybreve_;), n. [Telugu ba&nsdot_;&dsdot_;i.] A carriage or cart used in India, esp. one drawn by bullocks.
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Bandy, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Bandied (bănd&euptack_;d); p. pr. & vb. n. Bandying.] 1. To beat to and fro, as a ball in playing at bandy.
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Like tennis balls bandied and struck upon us . . . by rackets from without.
Cudworth.
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2. To give and receive reciprocally; to exchange. “To bandy hasty words.” Shak.
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3. To toss about, as from person to person; to circulate freely in a light manner; -- of ideas, facts, rumors, etc.
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Let not obvious and known truth be bandied about in a disputation.
I. Watts.
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Bandy, a. Bent; crooked; curved laterally, esp. with the convex side outward; as, a bandy leg.
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