Definitions for bunts

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bunts bunt

Spelling: [buhnt]

IPA: /bʌnt/

Bunts is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 55 anagrams from letters in bunts (bnstu).

Definitions for bunts

noun

1. a push with the head or horns; butt.
2. Baseball. the act of bunting. a bunted ball.
3. Nautical. the middle part of a square sail.
4. the bagging part of a fishing net or bagging middle area of various cloth objects.
5. a smut disease of wheat in which the kernels are replaced by the black, foul-smelling spores of fungi of the genus Tilletia.

verb (used with object)

1. (of a goat or calf) to push with the horns or head; butt.
2. Baseball. to bat (a pitched ball) very gently so that it rolls into the infield close to home plate, usually by holding the bat loosely in hands spread apart and allowing the ball to bounce off it.

verb (used without object)

1. to push (something) with the horns or head.
2. Baseball. to bunt a ball.

Origin of bunts

1760-70; orig. British dial. (Central and S England): push, strike; of obscure origin

Examples for bunts

The men on the yard who gather in the bunt when furling sails.

Frank believed Mertez would try to bunt, and he kept the ball high.

Stock followed with a bunt that Denton slipped down on as he ran in for it.

Now Bossy liked to bunt, too; so when the ran at her she put her down and ran at him!

Also, of the man who comes down a stay, &c., to tar it; or foots the bunt in.

Well, I hope you will be successful in your bunt; and so, good-bye till tomorrow.

Then followed a bunt, and while Dan Baxter fumbled with the ball Jack got to first.

And if you say that again, I'll bunt you up against the wall.

Martin at the bunt stood on the truss and clutched the chain sling.

The name is from German, bunt, meaning variegated or gay colored.