| Bandy 1. (n.) A carriage or cart used in India, esp. one drawn by bullocks. 2. (n.) A club bent at the lower part for striking a ball at play; a hockey stick. 3. (n.) The game played with such a club; hockey; shinney; bandy ball. 4. (v. t.) To beat to and fro, as a ball in playing at bandy. 5. (v. t.) To give and receive reciprocally; to exchange. 6. (v. t.) To toss about, as from man to man; to agitate. 7. (v. i.) To content, as at some game in which each strives to drive the ball his own way. 8. (a.) Bent; crooked; curved laterally, esp. with the convex side outward; as, a bandy leg. Thesaurus Entries alternate, answer, arched, arciform, arclike, arcual, bandy-legged, banter, be quits with, blemished, bloated, bowed, bowlegged, bowlike, change, chuck, club-footed, commute, compensate, concave, convex, cooperate, counterchange, defaced, deformed, disfigured, dwarfed, embowed, exchange, flatfooted, flip, get back at, get even with, gibbose, gibbous, give and take, grotesque, humpbacked, humped, humpy, hunched, hunchy, ill-made, ill-proportioned, ill-shaped, interchange, knock-kneed, logroll, malformed, marred, misbegotten, misproportioned, misshapen, monstrous, mutilated, out of shape, oxbow, pay back, permute, pigeon-toed, pitch, pug-nosed, rachitic, reciprocate, repay, requite, respond, retaliate, retort, return, return the compliment, rickety, simous, snub-nosed, stumpy, swap, swaybacked, switch, talipedic, throw, toss, trade, transpose, truncated, vaulted |