Dictionary entry

Bandy (3)

Webster's Dictionary 1913

Ban″dy, v. t. [imp. & p. p.Bandied (–dĭd); 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.