bandyn.1
/ˈbandi/, U.S. /ˈbændi/ I. Senses relating to a variety of tennis.† 1. A particular way of playing at tennis, the nature of which is not now known. It does not appear from the quotations whether bandy was the same as check, i.e. the modern ‘cramped game’ of ‘touch no walls.’ Obsolete.† 2. A stroke with a racket, a ball so struck; a ‘return’ at tennis. Obsolete.† 3. figurative. Obsolete.
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1578 T. Nicholas tr. F. Lopez de Gómara Pleasant Hist. Conquest W. India 179 They play not at chases, but at bandie or at Check, that is, if the ball touch the wall, it looseth.
1607 Lingua ii. v, in W. C. Hazlitt Dodsley's Sel. Coll. Old Eng. Plays (1874) IX. 381 The shooting stars..Are nothing but the balls they lose at bandy.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > racket games > real tennis > [noun] > types of play or stroke
chasec1440
loss1591
volley1596
bandy1598
back-racket1608
service1611
force1662
serve1688
serving1688
Renshaw smash1881
pass1888
railroad service1890
kicker1936
1598 J. Marston Certaine Satyres in Metamorph. Pigmalions Image 36 Straight with loud mouth (a bandy Sir) he cries.
1627 M. Drayton Battaile Agincourt 7 They such Racket shall in Paris see, When ouer lyne with Bandies I shall driue, As that before the Set be fully done, France may (perhaps) into the Hazard runne.
1655 J. Cotgrave Wits Interpreter 7 A bandie ho! the people crie, And so the ball takes flight.
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1602 T. Dekker Satiro-mastix sig. I3 Take this bandy with the racket of patience.
1604 C. Edmondes Observ. Cæsars Comm. II. vi. vii. 21 Their factions..caused one partie to bring in Ariouistus..and the other partie, the Romaines to make good their bandy.
1638 J. Ford Fancies v. 73 Not wrong'd eem, [sic]..this is the bandie of a patience Beyond all sufferance.
II. Senses relating to hockey.
4. A game, also called bandy-ball n., in which a small ball is driven to and fro over the ground, with bent club sticks, by two sides of players; the same as hockey n.2
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > hockey > [noun]
hockey1527
bandya1672
field hockey1895
a1672 F. Willughby Bk. of Games (2003) 179 Bandie Ball. The Bandie Ball staves they strike the ball with are crooked at one end like Baseting sticks.
1693 T. D'Urfey Richmond Heiress (song) sig. A4v The prettiest Fellows,..At Bandy once and Cricket.
1797 R. Southey Lett. from Spain ix. 118 A royal recreation similar to what boys call Bandy in England.
1822 W. Irving Bracebridge Hall II. 64 Bandy-ball, trapball, wrestling, leaping.
1860 ‘G. Eliot’ Mill on Floss I. i. vi. 77 She's only a girl—she can't play at bandy.
5. A club bent or curved at its lower end, used for striking the ball in this game.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > hockey > [noun] > stick
stick1527
bandy?1630
hockey stick1843
?1630 T. Adams Wks. 1119 The Mathematician [will not] lend his engines for wasters and bandies.
1681 R. Knox Hist. Relation Ceylon 50 All which..carry staves in their hands like to Bandyes, the crooked end uppermost.
1850 ‘Bat’ Cricketer's Man. (rev. ed.) 24 Sending it with blows of their bandies, whizzing through the air.
6. bandy-wicket n. (see quots.). dialect.
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1749 W. Ellis Compl. Syst. Improvem. Sheep ii. iv. 199 The bad Example of others, who..play at Bandy-wicket..on the Sabbath-Day.
1823 E. Moor Suffolk Words 14 Bandy-wicket, a game with bats, or sticks, and ball, like cricket—but with bricks..or..hats, instead of bales and stumps, for wickets.
a1825 R. Forby Vocab. E. Anglia (1830) Bandy-wicket, the game of cricket. Of the several games at ball played with a bandy, that in which a ball is aimed by one player at a wicket, defended by the adversary with his bandy, must be allowed to be very appropriately called bandy-wicket.
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bandyn.2
/ˈbandi/, U.S. /ˈbændi/ A carriage, bullock-carriage, buggy, or cart, used in India.
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society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > cart, carriage, or wagon > [noun]
carc1320
chara1400
charet?a1400
wagon1542
carry1600
rotan1676
messagerie1777
pillbox1789
bandy1791
Pennsylvania wagon1800
gharry1810
rath1813
vardo1819
rig1831
1791 Madras Courier 29 Sept. To be Sold, an Elegant, new, and fashionable Bandy, with copper-pannels, lined with Morocca leather.
1800 Sir T. Munro Life I. 243 No wheel carriages..not even a buffalo-bandy.
1854 J. H. Stocqueler Hand-bk. Brit. India (ed. 3) 109 A buggy being a one-horse vehicle..(at Madras they call it a bandy).
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bandyadj.
/ˈbandi/, U.S. /ˈbændi/ 1. Of legs: Curved laterally with the concavity inward. [perhaps attributive use of bandy n.1 ‘hockey-stick.’] Also used briefly for bandy-legged adj. at Derivatives.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > deformity > deformities of specific parts > [adjective] > of legs
luttered?a1400
shamble1607
bandy1687
parenthetical1834
1687 T. Shadwell tr. Juvenal Tenth Satyr x. 441 No Noble Youth with Bandy-leggs.
1735 J. Swift Furnit. Woman's Mind in Wks. II. 414 Nor makes a Scruple to expose Your bandy Leg, or crooked Nose.
1794 W. Blake Little Vagabond in Songs of Experience Dame Lurch.. Would not have bandy children.
1815 W. Scott Guy Mannering II. 120 A little mongrel cur, with bandy legs.
2. Marked with bands; cf. band n.2 10b [ < band n.2 + -y suffix1.]
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the world > matter > colour > variegation > stripiness > [adjective] > broad striped
bandy1552
belted1756
broad-banded1904
the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > textile fabric > textile fabric made from specific material > made from wool > [adjective] > other
say1531
bandy1552
russel1566
shalloon1665
doily1680
West of England1779
lofty1909
1552 Act 5 & 6 Ed. VI vi. §27 Cloth..either pursie, bandie, squally by warpe or woufe.
1601 Act 43 Eliz. x. §1 Clothes..squally, cockling, bandy, light and notably faulty.
3. Full of bands. [ < band n.3 4 + -y suffix1.]
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society > leisure > the arts > music > musician > instrumentalist > company of instrumentalists > [adjective] > band
bandy1852
1852 C. Dickens Let. 22 July (1988) VI. 721 Not quite a place to my taste, being too Bandy (I mean musical—no reference to its legs).
Derivatives
bandy-legged adj.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > deformity > deformities of specific parts > [adjective] > of legs > having
leglessc1390
bow-legged1552
crook-legged1580
shackle-hammed1592
baker-kneed1611
baker-legged1611
buckle-hammed1629
out-shinned1682
bandy-legged1688
crooked-legged1691
shackled-ham'd1733
badger-legged1738
tailor-legged1768
knock-kneed1774
scissor-legged1880
1688 London Gaz. No. 2392/4 A bandy-leged splafooted elderly Man.
1849 W. Irving Crayon Misc. 233 Short and bandy-legged..his little legs curving like a pair of parentheses below his kilt.
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bandyv.
/ˈbandi/, U.S. /ˈbændi/ I. Senses relating to throwing or tossing.† 2. To toss, drive, or throw aside or away. Obsolete.
1.
a. transitive. To throw or strike (a ball) to and fro, as in the games of tennis and bandy. (Mostly with figurative reference.)
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > racket games > real tennis > play real tennis [verb (transitive)] > types of play or stroke
stop1530
serve1564
serve1579
bandy1587
boast1878
1587 A. Fleming et al. Holinshed's Chron. (new ed.) III. 1077/2 Kingdoms..be no balles for me to bandie.
1592 T. Nashe Pierce Penilesse (Brit. Libr. copy) sig. E3 They may make Ruffians hall of hell: and there, bandy balls of Brimstone at one an others head.
1678 R. Cudworth True Intellect. Syst. Universe i. v. 845 Had we no Mastery at all over our Thoughts, but they were all like Tennis-Balls, Bandied, and Struck upon us, as it were by Rackets from without.
1842 Ld. Tennyson Vision of Sin in Poems (new ed.) II. 218 To be the ball of Time, Bandied in the hands of fools.
1862 W. R. Grove On Correlation Physical Forces (ed. 4) 32 A ball of caoutchouc bandied about.
b. absol.
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1612 J. Webster White Divel sig. I While he had bin bandying at Tennis, He might haue..strooke His soul into the hazzard!
1699 Coles's Dict. Eng.-Lat. (ed. 4) To bandy at Tennis, reticulo pellere.
c. intransitive. To bound like a ball struck or driven.
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the world > movement > impact > rebound > [verb (intransitive)]
to pilt up againa1200
bolt?c1225
rebounda1398
redoundc1500
stot1513
to strike upward1530
band1580
recoil1591
bound1597
result1598
retort1599
resile1641
bandy1658
resiliate1755
ricochet1804
reverberate1817
kick1832
dap1851
bounce1887
bank1962
1658 R. White tr. K. Digby Late Disc. Cure Wounds (1660) 20 Untill she bandies..upon another solid body, and so she continueth to make new boundings here and there.
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the mind > possession > relinquishing > casting or laying aside > [verb (transitive)] > utterly or energetically
to throw off?a1439
bandy1591
to cast in the wind1652
to fling, give, throw, etc. to the winds1667
to wipe one's hands of1785
to wipe one's lips of1851
the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going away > causing to go away > command to go away [verb (transitive)] > drive away
feezec890
adriveeOE
aflemeeOE
off-driveeOE
flemeOE
withdrivec1000
adreveOE
to drive outOE
biwevea1300
chasec1300
void13..
catcha1325
firk1340
enchasec1380
huntc1385
to catch awayc1390
forcatch1393
to put offa1398
to cast awaya1400
to put outc1400
repel?a1439
exterminate1541
chasten1548
propulse1548
keir1562
hie1563
depulse1570
band1580
bandy1591
flit1595
ferret1601
profugate1603
extermine1634
1591 Troublesome Raigne Iohn i. sig. G4v If Arthurs death be dismall to be heard, Bandie the newes for rumors of vntruth: He liues my Lord.
1657 Lusts Dominion i. iv. sig. B11v The Cardinal..would bandy me away from Spain.
1668 H. More Divine Dialogues i. viii. 33 If the Earth had been bandied out of one Vortex into another.
3. To toss from side to side, like a tennis ball.
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the world > movement > motion in specific manner > alternating or reciprocating motion > move to and fro or up and down [verb (transitive)] > move like a shuttlecock or tennis-ball
shuttle1550
tennis1565
bandya1599
racket1599
shuttlecock1687
battledore1858
ping-pong1909
the world > movement > transference > [verb (transitive)] > pass with the hand > pass from hand to hand
band1580
bandya1599
passa1616
to hand about1660
to fist about1701
circulatec1793
to send round1839
a1599 E. Spenser View State Ireland 63 in J. Ware Two Hist. Ireland (1633) And from one hand to another doe bandie the service like a Tennis-Ball.
1650 T. Fuller Pisgah-sight of Palestine ii. ix. 190 Those Lepers..bandied betwixt two deaths of the famine and the sword.
1712 R. Blackmore Creation ii. 69 What vig'rous Arm..Bandies the mighty Globe still to and fro?
1864 J. Gilbert & G. C. Churchill Excurs. Dolomite Mts. The path..was bandied from side to side on rough bridges.
4.
a. To toss or pass from one to another, in a circle or group; to toss about.
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1600 T. Dekker Old Fortunatus sig. H1 Now hees bandyed by the Seas in scorne, From waue to waue.
1675 J. Crowne Calisto i. 8 Hark how they bandy Praise, and Flattery round!
1839 C. Dickens Nicholas Nickleby xxx. 292 The stories they invent..and bandy from mouth to mouth!
b. (Often emphasized by about.)
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1596 M. Drayton Mortimeriados sig. C2 But Fortune..straight begins to bandy him about.
1748 B. Robins & R. Walter Voy. round World by Anson ii. ii. 130 Thus was this unhappy vessel bandied about within a few leagues of her intended harbour.
1842 R. H. Barham Lay Old Woman in Ingoldsby Legends 2nd Ser. 266 Bandied about thus from pillar to post.
1872 W. Black Strange Adventures Phaeton xxxi. 416 Sharp words were being bandied about.
1885 J. Pearson Law Times Rep. 52 (N.S.) 183/1 Suitors being bandied about from one court to another.
5.
a. To discuss from mouth to mouth. Cf. 4b.
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the mind > attention and judgement > testing > debate, disputation, argument > hold discussions about, debate [verb (transitive)] > from mouth to mouth
toss?c1550
bandy1642
branle1654
toss-about1844
fence1887
1642 J. Spelman View of Observ. upon His Majesties Late Answers 40 To debate and bandy the principles of Government.
1692 T. Wagstaffe Vindic. King Charles i. 18 A Bill was preferr'd..touching Monopolies, and was strongly bandied on both sides.
1768 H. Walpole Hist. Doubts 40 His own legitimacy, which was too much connected with that of his brothers to be tossed and bandied about before the multitude.
1840 W. Irving Oliver Goldsmith I. 147 Your name is..frequently bandied at table among us.
b. absol. or intransitive.
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the mind > attention and judgement > testing > debate, disputation, argument > argue, dispute, discuss [verb (intransitive)] > from mouth to mouth
chop1581
bandy1603
to give and takea1661
1603 J. Florio tr. M. de Montaigne Ess. ii. ii. 201 Lucretius..may philosophie and bandie at his pleasure.
6.
a. To give and take (blows, words, reproaches, compliments, etc.); to exchange. to bandy words = to argue pertinaciously, wrangle.
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the world > time > change > exchange > exchange, change for [verb (transitive)]
changec1225
truck?c1225
interchangec1374
permutec1400
wrixlec1400
turnc1449
wissel1487
chaffer1530
niffer1540
bandy1589
to chaffer words1590
swap1590
barter1596
counterchange1598
commute1633
trade1636
countercambiate1656
ring1786
rebarter1845
trade1864
swop1890
permutate1898
interconvert1953
the mind > attention and judgement > testing > debate, disputation, argument > controversy, dispute, argument > argue about, dispute [verb (transitive)]
traverse?1504
arguea1513
to stand in terms?a1562
to stand with ——1579
argle1589
bandy1589
balk1590
ventilate1607
controvert1609
sticklea1661
chop1685
militate1754
the mind > attention and judgement > testing > debate, disputation, argument > controversy, dispute, argument > contend, dispute, argue [verb (intransitive)]
flitec900
witherc1000
disputea1225
pleadc1275
strive1320
arguec1374
tolyc1440
toilc1450
wrestlec1450
altercate1530
disagree1534
dissent1538
contend1539
controvert1563
wrangle?1570
contestate?1572
to fend and prove?1578
contest1603
vie1604
controverse1605
discept1639
ergot1653
digladiatea1656
misprove1662
spar1698
argufy1804
spat1809
to cross swords1816
argle1823
to bandy words1828
polemize1828
controversialize1841
caffle1851
polemicize1881
ergotize1883
argy-bargy1887
cag1919
snack1956
1589 R. Greene Menaphon sig. E3v It little fits in this companie to bandie taunts of loue.
1622 R. Grenewey tr. Tacitus Annales (rev. ed.) vi. viii. 134 Rushing in couragiously to bandy stroakes.
1677 tr. A.-N. Amelot de La Houssaie Hist. Govt. Venice 271 When they had bandied Arguments at home, they went to fight their Enemies abroad.
1828 W. Scott Fair Maid of Perth iv, in Chron. Canongate 2nd Ser. I. 99 Bandy not words, but begone.
1855 J. L. Motley Rise Dutch Republic Hist. Itrod. vi. 30 Bandying blows in the thickest of the fight.
b. with (and later also against) a person.
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1593 T. Nashe Christs Teares f. 39 Hys backe bandieth colours with the Sunne.
1608 W. Shakespeare King Lear iv. 81 Doe you bandie lookes with me you rascall? View more context for this quotation
1767 S. Johnson in Boswell Life Johnson (1831) II. 36 It was not for me to bandy civilities with my sovereign.
1847 L. Hunt Men, Women, & Bks. II. xi. 280 The leaders..bandied against one another the foulest charges.
1880 W. H. Dixon Royal Windsor (ed. 3) III. vii. 69 She could not bandy words with insolent pages.
c. one thing for another.
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1595 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 3 i. iv. 50 I will not bandie with thee word for word, But buckle with thee blowes.
1598 M. Drayton Englands Heroicall Epist. (new ed.) f. 56 To bandy woe for woe, and teare for teare.
II. Senses relating to banding together or contending.† 7. To band together, league, confederate:
a. transitive and reflexive (cf. French se bander.)
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society > society and the community > social relations > association for a common purpose > associate for common purpose [verb (reflexive)]
ally?a1400
fellowc1425
accompanya1470
associatea1513
band1530
confederate1531
join1535
rely1577
interleague1590
bandy1597
colleague1599
identify1780
solidarize1888
society > society and the community > social relations > association for a common purpose > associate with for common purpose [verb (transitive)] > bring into association
allyc1325
confeder1380
sociea1387
associate1398
sociate1485
companya1500
band1530
confederate1532
aggregate1534
colleague1535
join1560
enter1563
bandy1597
league1611
colligate1613
club1656
fraternize1656
federalize1787
brigade1831
1597 Prayers in Liturg. Q. Eliz. (1847) 676 Our enemies..conspire and bandy themselves against us.
1632 G. Hughes Saints Losse 38 All the kings of the earth bandy themselves to fight with him.
1656 J. Trapp Comm. Rev. ix. 5 Antichrist and his actuaries bandy and bend all their forces to destroy souls.
1700 Harrington's Art of Law-giving in Oceana ii. i. 397 Korah, Dathan, and Abiram..bandy'd themselves against Moses.
1819 W. Scott Bride of Lammermoor iii, in Tales of my Landlord 3rd Ser. I. 64 Here is his son already bandying and making a faction.
b. intransitive.
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society > society and the community > social relations > association for a common purpose > associate for common purpose [verb (intransitive)]
jousta1325
ally?a1400
joinc1400
associe1441
confederc1460
to stick together1525
band1530
to join forces1560
colleaguec1565
alliance1569
to enter league1578
unite1579
interleague1590
confederate1591
to join hands1598
combine1608
injointa1616
combinda1626
bandy1633
comply1646
federate1648
leaguea1649
associate1653
coalesce1657
to understand each other1663
sociate1688
to row in the same (also in one) boat1787
rendezvous1817
to make common cause (with)1845
to sing the same song1846
cahoot1857
to gang up1910
jungle1922
1633 G. Herbert Temple: Sacred Poems 62 Joyntly bandying, They drive them soon away.
1673 R. Allestree Ladies Calling ii. iii. §18 The servants..bandy into leagues and parties.
a1754 T. Carte Gen. Hist. Eng. (1755) IV. 116 If he bandied to remove his father's servants.
1758 J. Jortin Life Erasmus I. 192 Giddy and ignorant young men..had bandied together in a body, calling themselves Trojans.
8. intransitive. To contend, strive, fight. (Cf. Cotgrave ‘Se bander contre, to bandie, or oppose himselfe against.’)
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society > society and the community > dissent > contention or strife > contend [verb (intransitive)]
winc888
fightc900
flitec900
wraxlec1000
wrestlea1200
cockc1225
conteckc1290
strivec1290
struta1300
topc1305
to have, hold, make, take strifec1374
stightlea1375
debatec1386
batea1400
strugglec1412
hurlc1440
ruffle1440
warc1460
warslea1500
pingle?a1513
contend1529
repugn1529
scruggle1530
sturtc1535
tuga1550
broilc1567
threap1572
yoke1581
bustle1585
bandy1594
tilt1595
combat1597
to go (also shake, try, wrestle) a fall1597
mutiny1597
militate1598
combatizec1600
scuffle1601
to run (or ride) a-tilt1608
wage1608
contesta1618
stickle1625
conflict1628
stickle1647
dispute1656
fence1665
contrast1672
scramble1696
to battle it1715
rug1832
grabble1835
buffet1839
tussle1862
pickeer1892
passage1895
tangle1928
1594 W. Shakespeare Titus Andronicus i. i. 309 A valiant sonne in law..One fit to bandie with thy lawlesse sonnes.
1644 J. Milton Doctr. Divorce (ed. 2) 76 That Law may bandy with nature, and traverse her sage motions, was an error.
1660 J. Milton Readie Way Free Commonw. (ed. 2) 59 Neither did the people of Rome bandie with thir Senat while any of the Tarquins livd.
1705 E. Hickeringill Priest-craft 47 Let them Bandy against one another ’till I part them.
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