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Punt   /pənt/   Listen
noun
Punt  n.  Act of playing at basset, baccara, faro, etc.


Punt  n.  (Naut.) A flat-bottomed boat with square ends. It is adapted for use in shallow waters.


Punt  n.  (Football) The act of punting the ball.


verb
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.
2.
(Football) To kick (the ball) before it touches the ground, when let fall from the hands.


Punt  v. i.  To play at basset, baccara, faro. or omber; to gamble. "She heard... of his punting at gaming tables."


Punt  v. i.  
1.
To boat or hunt in a punt.
2.
To punt a football.





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"Punt" Quotes from Famous Books



... Once more they unlocked the doors, and carried down everything required. She then bade a lad notify the boatwomen go to the dock and punt out two boats. But while all this bustle was going on, they discovered that dowager lady Chia had already arrived at the head of a whole company of people. Li Wan promptly ...
— Hung Lou Meng, Book II • Cao Xueqin
... hours together. We thought only of those hours. Things lent themselves to us. We stood up and walked out in front of the hotel and there moored to a stake at the edge of the water was a little leaky punt, the one vessel on the Engstlen See. We would take food with us as we decided and row out there to where the vast cliffs came sheer from the water, out of earshot or interference and talk for all the time we had. And I remember now how Mary stood and ...
— The Passionate Friends • Herbert George Wells
... rapidly approaching from the opposite bank. An athletic aboriginal native, in an attitude that seemed studiedly graceful, was bending to the stout rope, which, attached to either side of the river, served to propel the punt. He had been spearing fish; for his wife, or gin, or queen—for she was born such, and contradicted in her person the ...
— A Love Story • A Bushman
... highly praised, and it was decided that a brilliant fortune awaited me in Rome. After supper there was no talk of play, but giving way to my evil genius I loudly asked for my revenge. I was told that if I would take the bank everyone would punt. I took the bank, lost every sequin I had, and retired, begging the monk to pay what I owed to the landlord, which he ...
— The Memoires of Casanova, Complete • Jacques Casanova de Seingalt
... confident, showing themselves everywhere. The partridge coveys had whirred up noisily in full view of the passing woodsman, and craned their necks to watch him from the near-by branches. On every shallow mere and tranquil river-reach the flocks of wild ducks had fed boldly, suffering canoe or punt to come within easy gunshot. In the heavy grass of the wild meadows, or among the long, washing sedges of the lakeside, the red deer had pastured openly in the broad daylight, with tramplings and splashings, and had lifted large bright eyes of unterrified curiosity if a boat or canoe happened ...
— The House in the Water - A Book of Animal Stories • Charles G. D. Roberts


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