bunt

/bʌnt/

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Northern England/bʊnt/

bunt noun: the middle part, cavity, or belly of a sail; the part of a furled sail which is at the center of the yard.

Noun

bunt (countable and uncountable, plural bunts)

The middle part, cavity, or belly of a sail; the part of a furled sail which is at the center of the yard.
- The bunt of the sail was green.
A push or shove; a butt.
A ball that has been intentionally hit softly so as to be difficult to field, sometimes with a hands-spread batting stance or with a close-hand, choked-up hand position. No swinging action is involved.
- The bunt was fielded cleanly.
The act of bunting.
- The manager will likely call for a bunt here.
The second half of an outside loop, from level flight to inverted flight.
1. (broadly) Any large pilot-commanded pitch-down motion of an aircraft, often producing negative G-forces and resulting in a large negative change in flightpath angle.
A fungus (Ustilago foetida) affecting the ear of cereals, filling the grains with a foetid dust.

Synonyms:

pepperbrand

Verb

bunt (third-person singular simple present bunts, present participle bunting, simple past and past participle bunted)

To push with the horns; to butt.
To spring or rear up.
(transitive) To intentionally hit softly with a hands-spread batting stance.
- Jones bunted the ball.
(intransitive) To intentionally hit a ball softly with a hands-spread batting stance.
- Jones bunted.
(intransitive) To perform (the second half of) an outside loop.
- We had heard that there was an elite group of three or four pilots in Jodhpur called the “Bunt Club”, who had successfully bunted their aircraft—that is, carried out the second half of an outside loop. In the Bunt, you pushed the nose down, past the vertical and still further, until you were in...https://www.bharat-rakshak.com/IAF/history/1950s/raghavendran01/
(intransitive) To swell out.
- The sail bunts.
(rare) To headbutt affectionately.
- For quotations using this term, see Citations:bunt.

Proper noun capitalized: Bunt

Bunt (plural Bunts)

A surname.

bunt meaning in Urdu

bunt in Urdu

دھکا, دھکیلنا, پیچھے ہٹنا

Examples of bunt in a sentence

The sacrifice bunt was fielded cleanly, but the only play was to first.
Jones fielded the drag bunt, but the runner beat out his throw for a single.
Smith often drag bunts if he sees the third baseman playing back.

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Synonyms of bunt

pepperbrand

Forms of bunt

Noun
plural	bunts
Verb
third-person singular present	bunts
present participle	bunting
past participle	bunted
past	bunted
Proper noun
plural	Bunts

Plural of bunt: bunts

Origin of bunt

Unknown. Perhaps a nasalised variant of butt.

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Phrases with bunt

Words that rhyme with bunt

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Questions about bunt

What does bunt mean?: Bunt means the middle part, cavity, or belly of a sail; the part of a furled sail which is at the center of the yard.
What is bunt in Urdu?: Bunt in Urdu is دھکا, دھکیلنا, پیچھے ہٹنا. See Bunt meaning in Urdu.
What part of speech is bunt?: Bunt can be a noun, a verb or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce bunt?: Bunt is pronounced /bʌnt/.
What is the plural of bunt?: The plural of bunt is bunts.

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Last updated: 2026-09-02

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