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noun

Bunt n. (Bot.) A fungus (Ustilago foetida) which affects the ear of cereals, filling the grains with a fetid dust; also called pepperbrand.

Bunt n. (Naut.) The middle part, cavity, or belly of a sail; the part of a furled sail which is at the center of the yard.

Bunt n. A push or shove; a butt; specif. (Baseball), The act of bunting the ball.

verb

Bunt v. t. & v. i.

To strike or push with the horns or head; to butt; as, the ram bunted the boy.

(Baseball) To bat or tap (the ball) slowly within the infield by meeting it with the bat without swinging at it.

Bunt v. i. (Naut.) To swell out; as, the sail bunts.

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Etymology of 'Bunt'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Bunt" Quotes from Famous Books

... up, briefly. All the lee side of the sail was adrift, from the bunt gasket outwards. Lower, I saw Tom; he was just hoisting ...

— The Ghost Pirates • William Hope Hodgson

... cast off the gaskets, and made the bunt of each sail fast by the jigger, with a man on each yard, at the word the whole canvas of the ship was loosed, and with the greatest rapidity possible everything was sheeted home and hoisted up, the anchor tripped and cat-headed, ...

— Innocents abroad • Mark Twain

... Lyman, in order to attach him to their interests, is to promise to back him politically in the next campaign for Governor. It's too bad," he continued, dropping his voice, and changing his position. "It really is too bad to see good men trying to bunt a stone wall over with their bare heads. You couldn't have won at any stage of the game. I wish I could have talked to you and your friends before you went into that Sacramento fight. I could have told you then how ...

— The Octopus • Frank Norris

... by the Fust, fact, he let on onct thet his mine misgive him of a sort of fallin' off in spots. He wuz as outspoken as a norwester he wuz, but I tole him I hoped the fall wuz from so high up thet a feller could ketch a good many times fust afore comin' bunt onto the ground as I see Jethro C. Swett from the meetin' house steeple up to th' old perrish, an' took up for dead but he's alive now an' spry as wut you be. Turnin' of it over I recelected how they ust to ...

— The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell • James Lowell

... entrance to the Magellan Straits. About four leagues off it had the appearance of black rocks full of grey stars, against which the sea beat like the spouting of whales. At this cape the Admiral ordered the ships to lower their topsails on the bunt, in homage to the Queen's Majesty; and he here changed the name of his ship, the Pelican, to that of the Golden Hind, in compliment to his patron Sir Christopher Hatton, whose coat of arms ...

— Notable Voyagers - From Columbus to Nordenskiold • W.H.G. Kingston and Henry Frith

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