Bunt

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • v. Baseball To bat (a pitched ball) by tapping it lightly so that the ball rolls slowly in front of the infielders.
  • v. Baseball To cause (a base runner) to advance or (a run) to score by bunting.
  • v. To push or strike with or as if with the head; butt.
  • verb-intransitive. Baseball To bunt a pitched ball: The batter squared away to bunt.
  • verb-intransitive. To butt.
  • n. Baseball The act of bunting.
  • n. Baseball A bunted ball.
  • n. A butt with or as if with the head.
  • n. The middle portion of a sail, especially a square one, that is shaped like a pouch to increase the effect of the wind.
  • n. The pouchlike midsection of a fishing net in which the catch is concentrated.
  • n. A smut disease of wheat and other cereal grasses, caused by fungi of the genus Tilletia and resulting in grains filled with foul-smelling, sooty black spores. Also called stinking smut.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. The middle part, cavity, or belly of a sail; the part of a furled sail which is at the center of the yard.
  • n. 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.
  • n. The act of bunting
  • n. The second half of an outside loop, from level flight to inverted flight.
  • v. to intentionally hit softly with a hands-spread batting stance
  • v. to intentionally hit a ball softly with a hands-spread batting stance
  • v. to perform (the second half of) an outside loop.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A fungus (Ustilago fœtida) which affects the ear of cereals, filling the grains with a fetid dust; -- also called pepperbrand.
  • n. The middle part, cavity, or belly of a sail; the part of a furled sail which is at the center of the yard.
  • n. A push or shove; a butt
  • verb-intransitive. To swell out.
  • v. To strike or push with the horns or head; to butt.
  • v. To bat or tap (the ball) slowly within the infield by meeting it with the bat without swinging at it.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To push with the horns or head, as a goat or a calf.
  • To spring; rear.
  • n. A push with the head, or the head and horns.
  • n. The middle part of a square sail; also, the middle, baggy part of a net, etc.
  • To swell out; belly, as a sail.
  • To sift.
  • n. A smut which infests and destroys the kernels of wheat; an ustilagineous fungus, Tilletia caries, which causes serious damage in Europe, and is becoming troublesome in America.
  • n. A name sometimes given to the puffball, Lycoperdon.
  • In baseball, to block (the ball) with the bat, so that it goes to the ground and rolls only a short distance.
  • n. A blunt stone arrow-head with rounded edge in place of a point.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. disease of wheat characterized by replacement of the grains with greasy masses of smelly smut spores
  • n. fungus that destroys kernels of wheat by replacing them with greasy masses of smelly spores
  • n. similar to Tilletia caries
  • v. to strike, thrust or shove against
  • n. (baseball) the act of hitting a baseball lightly without swinging the bat
  • v. hit a ball in such a way so as to make it go a short distance
  • Verb Form
    bunted    bunting    bunts   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    smut    smut fungus    striking    hitting    hit   
    Cross Reference
    foul bunt    bunt up!   
    Variant
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    butt    bag    belly    swell    blight    push   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Hunt    Lunt    affront    blunt    brunt    confront    cunt    front    grunt    hunt   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    microfiber    laissez    headwind    indefense    Barton    scavoir