Word Finder - bunt

definition

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

example

The bunt of the sail was green.

definition

A push or shove; a butt.

definition

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.

example

The bunt was fielded cleanly.

definition

The act of bunting.

example

The manager will likely call for a bunt here.

definition

The second half of an outside loop, from level flight to inverted flight.

definition

A fungus (Ustilago foetida) affecting the ear of cereals, filling the grains with a foetid dust; pepperbrand.

definition

To push with the horns; to butt.

definition

To spring or rear up.

definition

To intentionally hit softly with a hands-spread batting stance.

example

Jones bunted the ball.

definition

To intentionally hit a ball softly with a hands-spread batting stance.

example

Jones bunted.

definition

To perform (the second half of) an outside loop.

example

We had heard that there was an elite group of three or four pilots in Jodhpur called the "Bunt Club", who had successfully bunted their aircraft - that is, carried out the second half of an outside loop. In the Bunt, you pushed the nose down, past the vertical and still further, until you were in horizontal inverted flight, and came out on the other side and rolled it out.

definition

To swell out.

example

The sail bunts.

definition

(of a cat) To headbutt affectionately.