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bunt

noun, verb — 14 senses

bunt

noun

/bʌnt/ · Northern-England /bʊnt/

Etymology Unknown. Perhaps a nasalised variant of butt.

7 senses
  1. 1The middle part, cavity, or belly of a sail; the part of…
  2. 2A push or shove; a butt.
  3. 3A ball that has been intentionally hit softly so as to…
  4. 4The act of bunting.
  5. 5The second half of an outside loop, from level flight to…
  6. 6Any large pilot-commanded pitch-down motion of an…
  7. 7A fungus (Ustilago foetida) affecting the ear of…
1

Nautical, Transport The middle part, cavity, or belly of a sail; the part of a furled sail which is at the center of the yard.

  • The bunt of the sail was green.
2

A push or shove; a butt.

3

Ball games, Baseball, Games, Hobbies, Lifestyle, Softball, Sports 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.

  • The bunt was fielded cleanly.
4

Ball games, Baseball, Games, Hobbies, Lifestyle, Softball, Sports The act of bunting.

  • The manager will likely call for a bunt here.
5

Aeronautics, Aerospace, Aviation, Business, Engineering, Natural sciences, Physical sciences The second half of an outside loop, from level flight to inverted flight.

6

Aeronautics, Aerospace, Aviation, Business, Engineering, Natural sciences, Physical sciences Broadly 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.

7

A fungus (Ustilago foetida) affecting the ear of cereals, filling the grains with a foetid dust.

Derived terms
buntline, drag bunt, English bunt, push bunt, sac bunt
Coordinate terms
clew, sacrifice bunt, slash bunt, swinging bunt, squeeze, safety squeeze, suicide squeeze

bunt

verb

Etymology Unknown. Perhaps a nasalised variant of butt.

7 senses
  1. 1To push with the horns; to butt.
  2. 2To spring or rear up.
  3. 3To intentionally hit softly with a hands-spread batting stance.
  4. 4To intentionally hit a ball softly with a hands-spread…
  5. 5To perform (the second half of) an outside loop.
  6. 6To swell out.
  7. 7To headbutt affectionately.
1

To push with the horns; to butt.

2

To spring or rear up.

3

Ball games, Baseball, Games, Hobbies, Lifestyle, Sports To intentionally hit softly with a hands-spread batting stance.

  • Jones bunted the ball.
4

Ball games, Baseball, Games, Hobbies, Lifestyle, Sports To intentionally hit a ball softly with a hands-spread batting stance.

  • Jones bunted.
5

Aeronautics, Aerospace, Aviation, Business, Engineering, Natural sciences, Physical sciences To perform (the second half of) an outside loop.

  • 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.https://www.bharat-rakshak.com/IAF/history/1950s/raghavendran01/
6

Nautical, Transport To swell out.

  • The sail bunts.
7

Rare, Of a cat To headbutt affectionately.

  • For quotations using this term, see Citations:bunt.
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