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Punt   /pənt/   Listen
Punt

noun
1.
Formerly the basic unit of money in Ireland; equal to 100 pence.  Synonyms: Irish pound, Irish punt, pound.
2.
An open flat-bottomed boat used in shallow waters and propelled by a long pole.
3.
(football) a kick in which the football is dropped from the hands and kicked before it touches the ground.  Synonym: punting.  "Punting is an important part of the game"
verb
1.
Kick the ball.
2.
Propel with a pole.  Synonym: pole.  "We went punting in Cambridge"
3.
Place a bet on.  Synonyms: back, bet on, gage, game, stake.  "I'm betting on the new horse"



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"Punt" Quotes from Famous Books



... expressed their obedience. Once more they unlocked the doors, and carried down everything required. She then bade a lad notify the boatwomen go to the dock and punt out two boats. But while all this bustle was going on, they discovered that dowager lady Chia had already arrived at the head of a whole company of people. Li Wan promptly ...
— Hung Lou Meng, Book II • Cao Xueqin
... lady," said he, accordingly, "we have had the pond dragged. No Mr. Sly. And the fisherman who keeps the punt assures us that he has not ...
— Stories of Comedy • Various
... boyhood, of course I had my rowing punt and my rod, and thus gained my first taste for a solitary life, as it frequently happened that I would be away from sunrise to sunset on some little expedition to one or other of the neighbouring Broads. By and bye came the time when I arrived at that rare age for enjoyment, fourteen years. This ...
— Jethou - or Crusoe Life in the Channel Isles • E. R. Suffling
... limited use of a leaky old punt, which one day capsized and emptied its whole crew into the water, luckily close to shore. We fished for gold carp for hours together, and during our two summers we caught a couple of them; there were thousands of them swimming about; but a bent pin with the ...
— Hawthorne and His Circle • Julian Hawthorne
... want peace; at least, not that kind of peace just at that moment. Sitting in a punt was not what she wanted. She was thrilled by the love of her less fortunate fellow-creatures, and the sense of power to help them, and the longing to go and do it. What she really wanted of Peter ...
— The Benefactress • Elizabeth Beauchamp


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