Word Finder - bunt

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

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The bunt of the sail was green.

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A push or shove; a butt.

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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.

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The bunt was fielded cleanly.

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The act of bunting.

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The manager will likely call for a bunt here.

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

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

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To push with the horns; to butt.

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To spring or rear up.

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

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Jones bunted the ball.

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

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Jones bunted.

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

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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.

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To swell out.

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The sail bunts.

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(of a cat) To headbutt affectionately.

Hic Bunt poetae Pacuvi Marci sita Ossa.

The other two parasites, smut and bunt, affect principally the grain.

Tilletia Tritici, bunt or stinking smut of wheat, is so-called because the bunted grain has a disagreeable odour of stale herrings.

So well have copper compounds controlled bunt that today this seed-borne disease is no longer of any economic importance.

This derrick is also used for putting out the fore bunt sections of the bobbins.

A different memory was when we had a fire drill and Mrs Greenway hid me from Mrs Bunt during lining up.

The discovery of the yeast-conidia of these fungi, and their thorough investigation by Brefeld, have thrown new lights on the group, as also have the results elucidating the nature of the ordinary dark spores - smuts, bunt, &c. - which by their mode of origin and development are chlamydospores.

Of these the rust, smut and bunt fungi are by far the most common and the most destructive.