bunt

(noun, verb)

noun

1. (baseball) the act of hitting a baseball lightly without swinging the bat

Definition categories: act, hit, hitting, striking

2. disease of wheat characterized by replacement of the grains with greasy masses of smelly smut spores

Definition categories: state

3. similar to Tilletia caries

Definition categories: plant

4. fungus that destroys kernels of wheat by replacing them with greasy masses of smelly spores

Definition categories: plant

Sentences with bunt as a noun:

- The bunt of the sail was green.

- The bunt was fielded cleanly.

- The manager will likely call for a bunt here.

verb

1. hit a ball in such a way so as to make it go a short distance

Definition categories: contact, hit

2. to strike, thrust or shove against

Similar word(s): butt

Definition categories: contact, strike

Sentences with bunt as a verb:

- Jones bunted the ball.

- Jones bunted.

- 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.

- The sail bunts.