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bunt

1  [buhnt]
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–verb (used with object)
1. (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. Brit. dial. (Central and S England): push, strike; of obscure orig.

Related forms:
bunter, noun
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bunt 1   (bŭnt)   
v.   bunt·ed, bunt·ing, bunts

v.   tr.

  1. Baseball

    1. To bat (a pitched ball) by tapping it lightly so that the ball rolls slowly in front of the infielders.

    2. To cause (a base runner) to advance or (a run) to score by bunting.

  2. To push or strike with or as if with the head; butt.

v.   intr.

  1. Baseball To bunt a pitched ball: The batter squared away to bunt.

  2. To butt.

n.  

  1. Baseball

    1. The act of bunting.

    2. A bunted ball.

  2. A butt with or as if with the head.


[Dialectal, to push, strike.]
bunt'er n.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
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Word Origin & History

bunt 
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.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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