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bunt (bunt)

transitive verb, intransitive verb

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

Etymology: < ? ME bounten, to return

noun

  1. a butt or shove
  2. ☆ Baseball
    1. the act of bunting
    2. a bunted ball
bunt2 definition

bunt (bunt)

noun

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

Etymology: < earlier dial., a puffball

bunt3 definition

bunt (bunt)

noun

  1. the sagging part of a fish net
  2. the bellying part of a square sail

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

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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