bandying

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

BAND'YING, participle present tense Beating, impelling or tossing from one to another; agitating in controversy without ceremony. BAND'Y-LEG, noun [bandy and leg. See Bend.] A crooked leg; a leg bending inward or outward.
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