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Bunt   /bənt/   Listen
Bunt

noun
1.
(baseball) the act of hitting a baseball lightly without swinging the bat.
2.
Disease of wheat characterized by replacement of the grains with greasy masses of smelly smut spores.  Synonym: stinking smut.
3.
Similar to Tilletia caries.  Synonyms: stinking smut, Tilletia foetida.
4.
Fungus that destroys kernels of wheat by replacing them with greasy masses of smelly spores.  Synonym: Tilletia caries.



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"Bunt" Quotes from Famous Books



... the lookout from his post of observation in the main-top, where he had stopped a moment on catching sight of the object floating in the water ahead of the vessel, as he was coming down from aloft after restowing the bunt of the main-topgallantsail that had ...
— Picked up at Sea - The Gold Miners of Minturne Creek • J.C. Hutcheson
... the torches blinds them to their situation, and they would scarcely escape if they could. One side of the net is taken up on the schooner's deck, and there clamped firmly, the fish thus lying in the bunt, or pocket between the schooners, and the two boats which lie off eight or ten feet, rising and falling with the sea. There, huddled together in the shallow water, growing ever shallower as the net is raised, the shining fish, hundreds and thousands of them, bushels, barrels, hogsheads of ...
— American Merchant Ships and Sailors • Willis J. Abbot
... It was one o'clock in the morning, and the men on the night shift were taking their midnight spell off. Bunt was back at his old occupation of miner, and I—the one loafer of all that little world of workers—had brought him a bottle of beer to go with the "chaw"; for Bunt and I ...
— A Deal in Wheat - And Other Stories of the New and Old West • Frank Norris


Words linked to "Bunt" :   smut, smut fungus, hitting, genus Tilletia, striking, Tilletia, strike, Tilletia caries, baseball game, baseball, headbutt, hit


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