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.
