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
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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
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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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