What does "bunt" mean?
The middle part, cavity, or belly of a sail; the part of a furled sail which is at the center of the yard.
Bunt
/bʌnt/ name, noun, verb
name, noun, verb ·Moderate ·High school level
Meaning at a glance
- Primary sense: The middle part, cavity, or belly of a sail; the part of a furled sail which is at the center of the yard.
- Grammar: bunt is listed as name, noun, verb.
- Nearest alternatives: advance, assault, beak, bear.
- Useful contrasts: disease free crop, full swing, healthy crop.
- Usage evidence: The manager sent the bunt sign to the batter.
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Definitions
Noun
- 1 The middle part, cavity, or belly of a sail; the part of a furled sail which is at the center of the yard. countable, uncountable
"The bunt of the sail was green."
- 2 (baseball) the act of hitting a baseball or softball lightly by holding the bat in a stationary position rather than swinging it wordnet
- 3 A push or shove; a butt. countable, uncountable
- 4 fungus that destroys kernels of wheat by replacing them with greasy masses of smelly spores wordnet
- 5 A ball that has been intentionally hit softly so as to be difficult to field, sometimes with a hands-spread batting stance or with a close-hand, choked-up hand position. No swinging action is involved. countable, uncountable
"The bunt was fielded cleanly."
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- 6 similar to Tilletia caries wordnet
- 7 The act of bunting. countable, uncountable
"The manager will likely call for a bunt here."
- 8 disease of wheat characterized by replacement of the grains with greasy masses of smelly smut spores wordnet
- 9 The second half of an outside loop, from level flight to inverted flight. countable, uncountable
- 10 The second half of an outside loop, from level flight to inverted flight.; Any large pilot-commanded pitch-down motion of an aircraft, often producing negative G-forces and resulting in a large negative change in flightpath angle. broadly, countable, uncountable
- 11 A fungus (Ustilago foetida) affecting the ear of cereals, filling the grains with a foetid dust. countable, uncountable
Verb
- 1 To push with the horns; to butt.
- 2 to strike, thrust or shove against wordnet
- 3 To spring or rear up.
- 4 hit a ball in such a way so as to make it go a short distance wordnet
- 5 To intentionally hit softly with a hands-spread batting stance. transitive
"Jones bunted the ball."
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- 6 To intentionally hit a ball softly with a hands-spread batting stance. intransitive
"Jones bunted."
- 7 To perform (the second half of) an outside loop. intransitive
"We had heard that there was an elite group of three or four pilots in Jodhpur called the “Bunt Club”, who had successfully bunted their aircraft—that is, carried out the second half of an outside loop. In the Bunt, you pushed the nose down, past the vertical and still further, until you were in horizontal inverted flight, and came out on the other side and rolled it out."
- 8 To swell out. intransitive
"The sail bunts."
- 9 To headbutt affectionately. rare
"For quotations using this term, see Citations:bunt."
Proper Noun
- 1 A surname.
Antonyms
disease free cropfull swinghealthy crophit for power
Example
"The manager sent the bunt sign to the batter."
Common questions
What is a synonym for "bunt"?
Common synonyms include: advance, assault, beak, bear, bear upon, bearing.
How do you use "bunt" in a sentence?
The manager sent the bunt sign to the batter.
How do you pronounce "bunt"?
Pronounced /bʌnt/.
Etymology
Unknown. Perhaps a nasalised variant of butt.