(of a goat or calf) to push with the horns or head; butt.
2.
Baseball.to bat (a pitched ball) very gently so that it rolls into the infield close to home plate, usually by holding the bat loosely in hands spread apart and allowing the ball to bounce off it.
verb (used without object)
3.
to push (something) with the horns or head.
4.
Baseball.to bunt a ball.
noun
5.
a push with the head or horns; butt.
6.
Baseball.
a.
the act of bunting.
b.
a bunted ball.
Origin: 1760–70; orig. British dial. (Central and S England): push, strike; of obscure origin
1825, "to strike with the head or horns," perhaps an alteration of butt (as a goat), or from M.E. bounten "to return." Baseball term is from 1889, noun and verb.