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bunt

About 0.27 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. noun The middle part, cavity, or belly of a sail; the part of a furled sail which is at the center of the yard.
    The bunt of the sail was green.
  2. noun A push or shove; a butt.
  3. noun 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.
    The bunt was fielded cleanly.
  4. noun The act of bunting.
    The manager will likely call for a bunt here.
  5. noun The second half of an outside loop, from level flight to inverted flight. Any large pilot-commanded pitch-down motion of an aircraft, often producing negative G-forces and resulting in a large negative change in flightpath angle.
  6. noun Any large pilot-commanded pitch-down motion of an aircraft, often producing negative G-forces and resulting in a large negative change in flightpath angle.
  7. noun A fungus (Ustilago foetida) affecting the ear of cereals, filling the grains with a foetid dust.
  8. verb To push with the horns; to butt.

Similar words

butt drag a bunt stinking smut tilletia caries tilletia foetida milam buntline skin bellyband waist

Often followed by

and of is in or the down to was

Word family

bunted bunter bunter dog bunters bunting bunts

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