Word Meanings - BANDY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A carriage or cart used in India, esp. one drawn by bullocks.

Related words: (words related to BANDY)

• INDIANEER
  An Indiaman.
• INDIA RUBBER
  . See Caoutchouc.
• CARRIAGEABLE
  Passable by carriages; that can be conveyed in carriages. Ruskin.
• DRAWN
  See PATTERN
• INDIAMAN
  A large vessel in the India trade. Macaulay.
• CARRIAGE
  carriage, cart, baggage, F. charriage, cartage, wagoning, fr. OF. 1. That which is carried; burden; baggage. David left his carriage in the hand of the keeper of the carriage. 1. Sam. xvii. 22. And after those days we took up our carriages and
• INDIA STEEL
  See WOOTZ
• INDIADEM
  To place or set in a diadem, as a gem or gems.
• INDIAN
  river in Asia, L. Indus, Gr. Hindu, name of the land on the Indus, 1. Of or pertaining to India proper; also to the East Indies, or, sometimes, to the West Indies. 2. Of or pertaining to the aborigines, or Indians, of America; as, Indian wars;
• DRAWNET
  A net for catching the larger sorts of birds; also, a dragnet. Crabb.
• INDIA
  A country in Southern Asia; the two peninsulas of Hither and Farther India; in a restricted sense, Hither India, or Hindostan. India ink, a nearly black pigment brought chiefly from China, used for water colors. It is in rolls, or in square, and
• EAST INDIAN
  Belonging to, or relating to, the East Indies. -- n.
• INDRAWN
  Drawn in.
• LINDIA
  A peculiar genus of rotifers, remarkable for the absence of ciliated disks. By some zoölogists it is thought to be like the ancestral form of the Arthropoda.
• RECARRIAGE
  Act of carrying back.
• MISCARRIAGEABLE
  Capable of miscarrying; liable to fail. Bp. Hall.
• WEST INDIAN
  A native of, or a dweller in, the West Indies.
• GINNY-CARRIAGE
  A small, strong carriage for conveying materials on a railroad.
• CUBDRAWN
  Sucked by cubs. This night, wherein the cub-drawn bear would couch. Shak.
• WEST INDIA; WEST INDIAN
  Belonging or relating to the West Indies. West India tea , a shrubby plant having oblanceolate toothed leaves which are sometimes used in the West Indies as a substitute for tea.
• HYDROPNEUMATIC GUN CARRIAGE
  A disappearing gun carriage in which the recoil is checked by cylinders containing liquid and air, the air when compressed furnishing the power for restoring the gun to the firing position. It is used with some English and European heavy guns.
• MISCARRIAGE
  1. Unfortunate event or issue of an undertaking; failure to attain a desired result or reach a destination. When a counselor, to save himself, Would lay miscarriages upon his prince. Dryden. 2. Ill conduct; evil or improper behavior;
• LONG-DRAWN
  Extended to a great length. The cicadæ hushed their long-drawn, ear-splitting strains. G. W. Cable.