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bunting

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bun⋅ting

1  [buhn-ting]
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–noun
1. a coarse, open fabric of worsted or cotton for flags, signals, etc.
2. patriotic and festive decorations made from such cloth, or from paper, usually in the form of draperies, wide streamers, etc., in the colors of the national flag.
3. flags, esp. a vessel's flags, collectively.
Origin:
1735–45; perh. orig. “sifting cloth,” hence bunt to sift (ME bonten) + -ing 1
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bun⋅ting

2  [buhn-ting]
–noun
any of several small, chiefly seed-eating birds of the genera Emberiza, Passerina, and Plectrophenax.

Origin:
1250–1300; ME < ?

bun⋅ting

3  [buhn-ting]
–noun
a hooded sleeping garment for infants.
Also called sleeper.

Origin:
1920–25; special use of bunting 1

bunt

1  [buhnt]
–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.
bunt·ing 1   (bŭn'tĭng)   
n.  

  1. A light cotton or woolen cloth used for making flags.

  2. Flags considered as a group.

  3. Strips of cloth or material usually in the colors of the national flag, used especially as drapery or streamers for festive decoration.


[Perhaps from German bunt, colored.]
bunt·ing 2   (bŭn'tĭng)   
n.  Any of various birds of the family Fringillidae, having short, cone-shaped bills and brownish or grayish plumage.

[Middle English.]
bunt·ing 3   (bŭn'tĭng)   
n.  A snug-fitting, hooded sleeping bag of heavy material for infants.

[Perhaps from Scots buntin, plump, short.]
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.

bunting  (1)
"flag material," 1742, perhaps from M.E. bonting gerundive of bonten "to sift," because cloth was used for sifting grain, via O.Fr. from V.L. *bonitare "to make good."

bunting  (2)
"type of lark-like bird," c.1300, bountyng, maybe from buntin "plump" (cf. baby bunting, also Scots buntin "short and thick;" Welsh bontin "rump," and bontinog "big-assed"), or a double dim. of Fr. bon.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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