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Bunt   /bənt/   Listen
Bunt

noun
1.
(baseball) the act of hitting a baseball lightly without swinging the bat.
2.
Disease of wheat characterized by replacement of the grains with greasy masses of smelly smut spores.  Synonym: stinking smut.
3.
Similar to Tilletia caries.  Synonyms: stinking smut, Tilletia foetida.
4.
Fungus that destroys kernels of wheat by replacing them with greasy masses of smelly spores.  Synonym: Tilletia caries.
verb
1.
Hit a ball in such a way so as to make it go a short distance.  Synonym: drag a bunt.
2.
To strike, thrust or shove against.  Synonym: butt.  "The goat butted the hiker with his horns"



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"Bunt" Quotes from Famous Books



... cup of powdered sugar to a cream, just as for cup cake, then add gradually one egg at a time, using three altogether, and stirring all the time in one direction. Work in the risen batter two or three spoons at a time between each egg. Grate in the peel of a lemon or an orange. Butter the bunt-form well (do this always before you begin to work). Blanched almonds may be set in the grooves of the cake-form after buttering it. Put in the dough, set it in a warm place and let it rise for an hour and a half or two hours. Bake in a moderate oven ...
— The International Jewish Cook Book • Florence Kreisler Greenbaum

... the wind blew much at Northeast, so that we could beare but onely a bunt of our foresaile, and the Barkes were not able to cary any sayle ...
— The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of The English Nation, Vol. XII., America, Part I. • Richard Hakluyt

... the other ships of the squadron, which had hitherto kept us company, notwithstanding the violence of the preceding storms. Neither was this our sole misfortune, for next morning, while endeavouring to hand the top-sails, the clew-lines and bunt-lines broke, and the sheets being half flown, every seam in the top-sails was soon split from top to bottom. The main top-sail shook so violently in the wind, that it carried away the top lanthorn, and even endangered the head of ...
— A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Volume 11 • Robert Kerr

... being very rainy, by coach with Sir W. Pen and my wife to Whitehall, and sent her to Mrs. Bunt's, and he and I to Mr. Coventry's about business, and so sent for her again, and all three home again, only I to the Mitre (Mr. Rawlinson's), where Mr. Pierce, the Purser, had got us a most brave chine of beef, and a dish of ...
— Diary of Samuel Pepys, Complete • Samuel Pepys

... hit" when the score is close and a player comes to the bat, and, although he would like to make a run, nevertheless, for the sake of the man on the base, he makes a "bunt," so that, while the pitcher or shortstop runs up to get the ball and put him out on first base, the man on the bases ...
— Fifty-Two Story Talks To Boys And Girls • Howard J. Chidley


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