[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

punt \punt\, n.
   act of playing at basset, baccara, faro, etc.
   1913 webster

[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

punt \punt\, n. as., fr. l. ponto punt, pontoon. see
   pontoon. naut.
   a flat-bottomed boat with square ends. it is adapted for use
   in shallow waters.
   1913 webster
see also:
pontoon 

[3] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

punt \punt\, v. t.
   1. to propel, as a boat in shallow water, by pushing with a
      pole against the bottom; to push or propel anything with
      exertion. --livingstone.
      1913 webster

   2. football to kick the ball before it touches the
      ground, when let fall from the hands.
      1913 webster

[4] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

punt \punt\, v. i. f. ponter, or it. puntare, fr. l. punctum
   point. see point.
   to play at basset, baccara, faro. or omber; to gamble.
   1913 webster

         she heard . . . of his punting at gaming tables.
                                                  --thackeray.
   1913 webster
see also:
point 

[5] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

punt \punt\, n. football
   the act of punting the ball.
   1913 webster

[6] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

punt \punt\, v. i.
   1. to boat or hunt in a punt.
      webster 1913 suppl.

   2. to punt a football.
      webster 1913 suppl.

[7] : WordNet (r) 2.0

punt
     n 1: formerly the basic unit of money in ireland; equal to 100
          pence syn: irish pound, irish punt, pound
     2: an open flat-bottomed boat used in shallow waters and
        propelled by a long pole
     3: football a kick in which the football is dropped from the
        hands and kicked before it touches the ground; "the punt
        traveled 50 yards"; "punting is an important part of the
        game" syn: punting
     v 1: kick the ball
     2: propel with a pole; "pole barges on the river"; "we went
        punting in cambridge" syn: pole
     3: place a bet on; "which horse are you backing?"; "i'm betting
        on the new horse" syn: bet on, back, gage, stake,
         game
see also:
irish pound irish punt pound punting pole bet on 
back gage stake game 

[8] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

47 moby thesaurus words for "punt":
   ante, ante up, back, bet, bet on, boot, calcitration, call,
   catch a crab, cover, cut a crab, drop kick, fade, feather,
   feather an oar, gamble, give way, hazard, kick, kicking, knee, lay,
   lay a wager, lay down, make a bet, meet a bet, pace, paddle,
   parlay, pass, place kick, play against, plunge, ply the oar, pull,
   row, row away, row dry, scull, see, ship oars, shoot, sky an oar,
   speculate, stake, stand pat, wager

[9] : Jargon File (4.3.1, 29 Jun 2001)

punt v. from the punch line of an old joke referring to american
   football: "drop back 15 yards and punt" 1. to give up, typically
   without any intention of retrying. "let's punt the movie tonight." "i
   was going to hack all night to get this feature in, but i decided to
   punt" may mean that you've decided not to stay up all night, and may
   also mean you're not ever even going to put in the feature. 2. more
   specifically, to give up on figuring out what the right thing is and
   resort to an inefficient hack. 3. a design decision to defer solving a
   problem, typically because one cannot define what is desirable
   sufficiently well to frame an algorithmic solution. "no way to know what
   the right form to dump the graph in is -- we'll punt that for now." 4.
   to hand a tricky implementation problem off to some other section of the
   design. "it's too hard to get the compiler to do that; let's punt to the
   runtime system." 5. to knock someone off an internet or chat connection;
   a `punter' thus, is a person or program that does this.


see also:
right thing 

[10] : The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03)

punt
     
        from the punch line of an old joke referring to american
        football: "drop back 15 yards and punt" 1. to give up,
        typically without any intention of retrying.  "let's punt the
        movie tonight."  "i was going to hack all night to get this
        feature in, but i decided to punt" may mean that you've
        decided not to stay up all night, and may also mean you're not
        ever even going to put in the feature.
     
        2. more specifically, to give up on figuring out what the
        right thing is and resort to an inefficient hack.
     
        3. a design decision to defer solving a problem, typically
        because one cannot define what is desirable sufficiently well
        to frame an algorithmic solution.  "no way to know what the
        right form to dump the graph in is - we'll punt that for
        now."
     
        4. to hand a tricky implementation problem off to some other
        section of the design.  "it's too hard to get the compiler to
        do that; let's punt to the run-time system."
     
        jargon file
     
     
see also:
right thing jargon file 

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