Bunt

·vi To swell out; as, the sail bunts.

II. Bunt ·add. ·noun A push or shove; a butt;.

III. Bunt ·add. ·noun the act of bunting the ball.

IV. Bunt ·noun The middle part, cavity, or belly of a sail; the part of a furled sail which is at the center of the yard.

V. Bunt ·vt & ·vi To strike or push with the horns or head; to Butt; as, the ram bunted the boy.

VI. Bunt ·noun A fungus (Ustilago foetida) which affects the ear of cereals, filling the grains with a fetid dust;

— also called pepperbrand.

VII. Bunt ·add. ·vt & ·vi To bat or tap (the ball) slowly within the infield by meeting it with the bat without swinging at it.

bunt
An apron. ...

Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
bunt
n. a Queensland fungus growing on wheat,fetid when crushed. Tilletia caries, Tul., N.O. Fungi. ...

Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
to bunt
To push with horns; to butt. This word is given by Webster, but is not in the English dictionaries. ...

Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
bu.nt
smut in corn. Northampt. ...

A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose
bunt-fair
Before the wind. ...

The Sailor's Word-Book
bunt-gasket
See gasket. ...

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bunt-jigger
A small gun-tackle purchase, of two single blocks, one fitted with two tails, used in large vessels ...

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bunt slab-lines
Reeve through a block on the slings of the yard or under the top, and pass abaft the sail, making fa...

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bunt of a sail
The middle part of it, formed designedly into a bag or cavity, that the sail may gather more wind. I...

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toss up the bunt, to
In furling a sail, to make its final package at the centre of the yard when in its skin. ...

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touch up in the bunt, to
To mend the sail on the yard; figuratively, to goad or remind forcibly. ...

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