bandymann.
/ˈbandɪmən/ The driver of a bandy (see bandy n.2).
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society > travel > transport > transport or conveyance in a vehicle > driving or operating a vehicle > driver or operator of vehicle > [noun] > driver of specific type of carriage
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a1881 Caldwell in Ogilvie's Imperial Dict. (1886) When also, as all over India, our white kinsmen speak of bandymen and bandies, the word thus anglicized is simply the old Tamilian one.
1922 Other Lands Apr. 76/2 The shout of ‘Ho, Bandyman’.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online March 2018).
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