What is the meaning of bunt?

noun

  • Baseball) the act of hitting a baseball lightly without swinging the bat. (
  • Disease of wheat characterized by replacement of the grains with greasy masses of smelly smut spores.
  • Similar to Tilletia caries.
  • Fungus that destroys kernels of wheat by replacing them with greasy masses of smelly spores.

verb

  • Hit a ball in such a way so as to make it go a short distance.
  • To strike, thrust or shove against.
    • usage: "He butted his sister out of the way"; "The goat butted the hiker with his horns"
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APAWordNet. (2010). bunt. Retrieved September 20, 2026, from http://smartdefine.org/bunt/definitions/1189122
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