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Bunt   /bənt/   Listen
Bunt

verb
1.
Hit a ball in such a way so as to make it go a short distance.  Synonym: drag a bunt.
2.
To strike, thrust or shove against.  Synonym: butt.  "The goat butted the hiker with his horns"



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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


Words linked to "Bunt" :   genus Tilletia, hitting, hit, headbutt, smut, Tilletia, baseball game, strike, striking, baseball, smut fungus


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