Bandy
verb
Third-person singular simple present: she/he bandies
Indicative past, past participle: bandied
Present participle: bandying.
Etymology: of uncertain origin. Maybe from Middle French bander (= to be tight, to bandy at tennis), which is derived from bande (= strip)
Transitively:
First definition: to throw, strike or beat (a ball) to and fro, or from one player to another, as in the game of bandy and tennis; this is, to throw or strike it alternately; this is, to throw, or impel by hitting (a ball) to and fro between players.
It may be approximately translated by pelotear con o rebatir (una pelota), in Spanish; ribattere (una palla), in Italian; renvoyer (une balle), in French
[…] a certain game of ball had been known, the playing of which consists in this –that two or more persons […] with bats, battledores, or racquets, bandied a ball from one to the other. American lawn tennis, vol. 1
[…] the player had to bandy the ball to and fro […] Heiner Gillmeister (Tennis)
We should try to keep up conversation like a ball bandied to and fro from one to the other, rather than seize it all to ourselves. Mr. Town (The connoisseur, v. 4)
The games chiefly practiced on the ice are bandy or hocky, as it is termed, fox-and-hounds, tick, and prison-bays. The […] first is played with sticks and a ball. A side chosen, goals are fixed, and the ball bandied to and fro, like a foot-ball, until a goal is gained. The New sporting magazine, v. 14
When a nimble runner gets the ball in his cross, he sets off towards the goal with the utmost speed, and is followed by the rest, who endeavor to jostle him and shake it out; but, if hard pressed, he discharges it with a jerk, to be forwarded by his own party, or bandied back by their opponents […] The Percy anecdotes, vol. 1 and 2
***Absolutely: to bandy a ball at tennis
Second definition: (less properly) to toss (anything, someone) to and fro, or from one person to another, as if it were a ball
Some, […] were bandied to and fro by the jerks and rolls of the ship, without exerting any efforts to help themselves. Robert Kerr (A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels)
[…] you don't know what it is to get back home, after having been bandied from one hotel to another hotel, and from one lodging-house to another lodging-house. William Black (Macleod of Dare)
***With the adverb about, to strengthen the connotation of toss:
Tom Paine was so wicked that he could not be buried; his bones were thrown into a box which was bandied about the world till it came to a button-manufacturer; and now Paine is travelling round the world in the form of buttons! Thomas Paine (The Writings of Thomas Paine)
Do you suppose it is none to have me bandied about from bidder to bidder, and offered for sale to a gentleman who will not buy me? William Makepeace Thackeray (The Newcomes)
Certificates were issued in the form of scrip calling for sections of the public domain of six hundred and forty acres each, and were current at from three to five cents an acre. The owner of one or more could locate on any of the unoccupied lands of the present State by merely surveying and recording his selection at the county seat. The scrip was bandied about, no one caring for it, and on the termination of my second month I was offered four sections for my services up to date, provided I would remain longer in the company's employ. Andy Adams (Reed Anthony, Cowman)
Third definition: (metaphorically) to cause (a theme) to be mentioned, or (something) to be named repeatedly and alternately, from one person to another, as if it were a ball
[…] another pair of business terms that people have bandied back and forth for years: efficiency and effectiveness. Paul Tiffany – Steven D. Peterson (Business Plans for Dummies)
His name was bandied from mouth to mouth, and a thousand efforts were made to find out who and what he was. Arthur Conan Doyle (The Doings of Raffles Haw)
[…] the freedom with which the name of this lovely and modest girl was bandied about from one to another. Hannah Maria Jones (The gipsy mother)
Fourth definition: (metaphorically) to cause (something verbal) to be alternately from one person to another, as if it were a ball
Synonyms: to diffuse, propagate
Antonyms: to conceal, hide
[…] there has recently been so much abuse of the Admiralty, and so many misrepresentations with regard to the state of our navy, compared with that of foreign powers, bandied about in party pamphlets, newspapers, and after-dinner speeches, that I deem it right, and even feel it a duty, to disabuse the public […] John Barrow (The life of George… )
[…] the evil reports are simultaneously in the mouth of every one; are bandied from one to another, and bandied back from second to principal. James H. Knox (Norman Hamilton)
[…] conjectures as to where she would live, and how she would live, and, above all, whom she would marry, were bandied about from one to the other. The New Monthly Magazine, edited by William Harrison Ainsworth
The awkwardness of the Delaware in his new attire caused his friend to smile more than once that day, but he carefully abstained from the use of any of those jokes which would have been bandied among white men on such an occasion, […]. James Fenimore Cooper (The Deerslayer)
Fifth definition: (metaphorically) to do, commit, perform (something) in reciprocity with some one else; this is, to affect some one with (something), and to be retaliated with the like.
Synonyms: to reciprocate, exchange
It may be approximately translated by reciprocar, in Spanish; reciprocare, in Italian; réciproquer, in French
The trembling sentinel now looked insolently in his face; the cowering legionary, with whom "to hear was to obey," now mused or even bandied words upon his orders. Thomas de Quincey (The Caesars)
I have not come to bandy pleasant speeches, or hollow professions. Charles Dickens (Barnaby Rudge)
After dinner the ladies gossiped of New York society, while the barbaric males smoked their big oily cigars and bandied reminiscences. Harry Leon Wilson (The Spenders)
***With the preposition with, before a noun or a pronoun designative of the reciprocator:
A few youthful couples, boy by girl and girl by boy, sat on the string-piece and whispered, or bandied fun with those other lovers who patrolled the flooring of the wharf. Julian Ralph (Cordelia's Night of Romance)
[…] I came not hither to bandy reproaches with you. Walter Scott (Ivanhoe)
Sixth definition: (Obsolete acceptation) to band; to cause (some one) to league.
Intransitively:
First definition: (of a ball bandied) to bound; to be bandied; to bound like a tennis ball
Second definition: (archaic acceptation) to band; this is, to league; to ally oneself with some one else
Synonym: to confederate, alliance
All the nobility of England bandied into parties, and adhered either to the one duke or the other. David Hume (The History of England)
While they staid at Barbadoes it was plainly discovered that not only the inhabitants there were against the general design, but that the seamen bandied against the land-men. Robert Venables (The experienced angler)
Third definition: (obsolete acceptation) to antagonize; to be an opposer
Synonyms: to contend, strive
[…] he was a person of great credit, and one who for a long time bandied against Pericles in the government. The universal magazine of knowledge
[…] he was neither bandied against, or censured in the more private and seditious cabals, nor was his master publicly addressed to for his removal. Edmund Lodge (Portraits…)
Other English vocables derived from bandy: rebandy, bandy (noun), bandying, maybe bandy (adj.)