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What (who) is bunt - definition
bunt
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Wheat bunt; The Bunt; Bunt (disambiguation); Bunts; Wheat bunt (disambiguation); Rye bunt; Rye bunt (disambiguation); Barley bunt; Barley bunt (disambiguation)
v. n.
(Colloq.) Butt, strike with the head or the horns.
Bunt
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Wheat bunt; The Bunt; Bunt (disambiguation); Bunts; Wheat bunt (disambiguation); Rye bunt; Rye bunt (disambiguation); Barley bunt; Barley bunt (disambiguation)
·vi To swell out; as, the sail bunts.
II. Bunt ·add. ·noun A push or shove; a butt;.
III. Bunt ·add. ·noun the act of bunting the ball.
IV. Bunt ·noun The middle part, cavity, or belly of a sail; the part of a furled sail which is at the center of the yard.
V. Bunt ·vt & ·vi To strike or push with the horns or head; to Butt; as, the ram bunted the boy.
VI. Bunt ·noun A fungus (Ustilago foetida) which affects the ear of cereals, filling the grains with a fetid dust;
- also called pepperbrand.
VII. Bunt ·add. ·vt & ·vi To bat or tap (the ball) slowly within the infield by meeting it with the bat without swinging at it.
bunt
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Wheat bunt; The Bunt; Bunt (disambiguation); Bunts; Wheat bunt (disambiguation); Rye bunt; Rye bunt (disambiguation); Barley bunt; Barley bunt (disambiguation)
bunt1 [b?nt]
¦ verb
1. Baseball (of a batter) gently tap (a pitched ball) without swinging.
2. butt with the head or horns.
¦ noun Baseball an act of bunting a ball.
Origin
C18: prob. related to butt1.
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bunt2 [b?nt]
¦ noun the baggy centre of a fishing net or a sail.
Origin
C16: of unknown origin.
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bunt3 [b?nt]
¦ noun a disease of wheat caused by a smut fungus, the spores of which smell of rotten fish.
Origin
C17: of unknown origin.
Examples of use of bunt
1. Mexico had banned exports after 1''6 outbreak of Karnal bunt disease By Peggy B.
2. Two of the first five made outs trying to bunt for hits.
3. Youkilis then doubled to deep right–center and Ortiz, after trying a bunt, advanced the runner with a groundout.
4. Then he had another catcher, Mike Lieberthal, bungle a bunt by Martnez that allowed the Mets to load the bases.
5. At the 1'36 opener, Senators pitcher Bobo Newsom and third baseman Ossie Bluege converged on a bunt.