Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The ball used in the game of bandy or hockey.
  • noun The game itself.

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Examples

  • It is, therefore, no longer necessary to say that golf is not a highly developed and scientific sort of hockey, or bandy-ball.

    Lost Leaders Andrew Lang 1878

  • In those days it was called ` bandy-ball, 'on account of the bowed or bandy stick with which it was played.

    Ernest Bracebridge School Days William Henry Giles Kingston 1847

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