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transitive verb, intransitive verb

Brit., Dialectal to strike or butt with or as with horns
☆ Baseball to bat (a pitched ball) lightly without swinging so that it rolls within the infield, usually in attempting to advance a base runner

Origin: < ? ME bounten, to return

noun

a butt or shove
☆ Baseball
1. the act of bunting
2. a bunted ball

noun

a disease that destroys the grain of wheat and other grasses, caused by various fungi (genus Tilletia)

Origin: < earlier dial., a puffball

noun

the sagging part of a fish net
the bellying part of a square sail

Origin: < ? MLowG & MDu, a binding, bundle; akin to bind

See bunt in American Heritage Dictionary 4

verb bunt·ed, bunt·ing, bunts

verb, transitive

Baseball
a. To bat (a pitched ball) by tapping it lightly so that the ball rolls slowly in front of the infielders.
b. To cause (a base runner) to advance or (a run) to score by bunting.
To push or strike with or as if with the head; butt.

verb, intransitive

Baseball To bunt a pitched ball: The batter squared away to bunt.
To butt.

noun

Baseball
a. The act of bunting.
b. A bunted ball.
A butt with or as if with the head.

Origin:

Origin: Dialectal, to push, strike

Related Forms:

buntˈer noun

noun

The middle portion of a sail, especially a square one, that is shaped like a pouch to increase the effect of the wind.
The pouchlike midsection of a fishing net in which the catch is concentrated.

Origin:

Origin: Perhaps from Swedish bunt

Origin: or Danish bundt

Origin: , both of Low German origin

noun

A smut disease of wheat and other cereal grasses, caused by fungi of the genus Tilletia and resulting in grains filled with foul-smelling, sooty black spores. Also called stinking smut.

Origin:

Origin: Origin unknown

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