Definitions from Wiktionary (Bunt)
▸ noun: (nautical) The middle part, cavity, or belly of a sail; the part of a furled sail which is at the center of the yard.
▸ noun: A push or shove; a butt.
▸ noun: (baseball, softball) 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.
▸ noun: (baseball, softball) The act of bunting.
▸ noun: (aviation) The second half of an outside loop, from level flight to inverted flight.
▸ noun: (by extension) 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.
▸ noun: (countable, uncountable) A fungus (Ustilago foetida) affecting the ear of cereals, filling the grains with a foetid dust.
▸ verb: To push with the horns; to butt.
▸ verb: To spring or rear up.
▸ verb: (transitive, baseball) To intentionally hit softly with a hands-spread batting stance.
▸ verb: (intransitive, baseball) To intentionally hit a ball softly with a hands-spread batting stance.
▸ verb: (intransitive, aviation) To perform (the second half of) an outside loop.
▸ verb: (intransitive, nautical) To swell out.
▸ verb: (rare, of a cat) To headbutt affectionately.
▸ noun: A surname.
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▸ noun: (nautical) The middle part, cavity, or belly of a sail; the part of a furled sail which is at the center of the yard.
▸ noun: A push or shove; a butt.
▸ noun: (baseball, softball) 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.
▸ noun: (baseball, softball) The act of bunting.
▸ noun: (aviation) The second half of an outside loop, from level flight to inverted flight.
▸ noun: (by extension) 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.
▸ noun: (countable, uncountable) A fungus (Ustilago foetida) affecting the ear of cereals, filling the grains with a foetid dust.
▸ verb: To push with the horns; to butt.
▸ verb: To spring or rear up.
▸ verb: (transitive, baseball) To intentionally hit softly with a hands-spread batting stance.
▸ verb: (intransitive, baseball) To intentionally hit a ball softly with a hands-spread batting stance.
▸ verb: (intransitive, aviation) To perform (the second half of) an outside loop.
▸ verb: (intransitive, nautical) To swell out.
▸ verb: (rare, of a cat) To headbutt affectionately.
▸ noun: A surname.
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butt,
drag a bunt,
stinking smut,
tilletia caries,
tilletia foetida,
buntline,
skin,
bellyband,
waist,
bilge,
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