Found 7 hits - Term: bunt, Database: *, Strategy: exact
- [1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
bunt \bunt\ bu^nt, n. bot.
a fungus ustilago foetida which affects the ear of
cereals, filling the grains with a fetid dust; -- also called
pepperbrand.
1913 webster
see also:
ustilago foetida pepperbrand
- [2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
bunt \bunt\, n. cf. sw. bunt bundle, dan. bundt, g. bund, e.
bundle. naut.
the middle part, cavity, or belly of a sail; the part of a
furled sail which is at the center of the yard. --totten.
1913 webster
- [3] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
bunt \bunt\, n.
a push or shove; a butt; specif. baseball, the act of
bunting the ball.
webster 1913 suppl.
- [4] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
bunt \bunt\, v. i. naut.
to swell out; as, the sail bunts.
1913 webster
- [5] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
bunt \bunt\, v. t. i.
1. to strike or push with the horns or head; to butt; as, the
ram bunted the boy.
1913 webster
2. baseball to bat or tap the ball slowly within the
infield by meeting it with the bat without swinging at it.
webster 1913 suppl.
- [6] : WordNet (r) 2.0
bunt
n 1: baseball the act of hitting a baseball lightly without
swinging the bat
2: disease of wheat characterized by replacement of the grains
with greasy masses of smelly smut spores syn: stinking
smut
3: similar to tilletia caries syn: stinking smut, tilletia
foetida
4: fungus that destroys kernels of wheat by replacing them with
greasy masses of smelly spores syn: tilletia caries
v 1: hit a ball in such a way so as to make it go a short
distance syn: drag a bunt
2: to strike, thrust or shove against, often with head or
horns; "he butted his sister out of the way" syn: butt
see also:
stinking smut stinking smut tilletia foetida tilletia caries drag a bunt butt
- [7] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
91 moby thesaurus words for "bunt":
advance, assault, beak, bear, bear upon, bearing, boost, bowl,
brush, buck, bull, bulldoze, bump, bump against, butt,
butt against, chuck, cram, crowd, dab, dig, drive, driving force,
elbow, fillip, flick, flip, flirt, force, forward, goad, graze,
head, hurtle, hustle, impel, impulsion, jab, jam, jog, joggle,
jolt, jostle, motive power, move, nudge, pat, peck, pedal, pick,
pile drive, poke, pole, press, pressure, prod, propel, propelling,
propelment, propulsion, pulsion, punch, push, pushing, ram,
ram down, rap, rattle, roll, row, run, run against, shake,
shoulder, shove, shoving, shunt, snap, stress, sweep, sweep along,
tamp, tap, thrust, tickle, tip, touch, treadle, troll, trundle,
whisk
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