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Punt   /pənt/   Listen
Punt

noun
1.
Formerly the basic unit of money in Ireland; equal to 100 pence.  Synonyms: Irish pound, Irish punt, pound.
2.
An open flat-bottomed boat used in shallow waters and propelled by a long pole.
3.
(football) a kick in which the football is dropped from the hands and kicked before it touches the ground.  Synonym: punting.  "Punting is an important part of the game"
verb
1.
Kick the ball.
2.
Propel with a pole.  Synonym: pole.  "We went punting in Cambridge"
3.
Place a bet on.  Synonyms: back, bet on, gage, game, stake.  "I'm betting on the new horse"



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"Punt" Quotes from Famous Books



... dunno about that," said the old man, sharply. "Seems ter me I could ha' gone an' been back by now. An' hi guy! there's four sacks o' flour to take acrost the river to Tim Lakeby—an' I kyan't do it by meself—Ben knows that. Takes two' on us ter handle thet punt 'ith the river runnin' like she is ...
— Ruth Fielding and the Gypsies - The Missing Pearl Necklace • Alice B. Emerson
... materialistic this could be is well illustrated by two earlier members of the XVIIIth Dynasty, who have left us vivid representations of the potter's wheel employed in the process of man's creation. When the famous Hatshepsut, after the return of her expedition to Punt in the ninth year of her young consort Thothmes III, decided to build her temple at Deir el-Bahari in the necropolis of Western Thebes, she sought to emphasize her claim to the throne of Egypt by recording ...
— Legends Of Babylon And Egypt - In Relation To Hebrew Tradition • Leonard W. King
... did not want peace; at least, not that kind of peace just at that moment. Sitting in a punt was not what she wanted. She was thrilled by the love of her less fortunate fellow-creatures, and the sense of power to help them, and the longing to go and do it. What she really wanted of Peter was that he should take her ...
— The Benefactress • Elizabeth Beauchamp
... don't look at this wretched paper any more," said Heathcote, crumpling up the offending Observer into a ball, and giving it a punt across the path. ...
— Follow My leader - The Boys of Templeton • Talbot Baines Reed
... their obedience. Once more they unlocked the doors, and carried down everything required. She then bade a lad notify the boatwomen go to the dock and punt out two boats. But while all this bustle was going on, they discovered that dowager lady Chia had already arrived at the head of a whole company of people. Li Wan promptly ...
— Hung Lou Meng, Book II • Cao Xueqin


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