† bandalore
A toy containing a coiled spring, which caused it, when thrown down, to rise again to the hand, by the winding up of the string by which it was held.
| 1824 Miss Mitford Village Ser. i. (1863) 198 A gone-by toy, called a bandalore. 1864 Athenæum 10 Sept. 330/2 Our Iron Duke..in Dublin playing with a Bandalore, now an obsolete toy. |