bunt

Significado (Inglés)

Noun

1. The middle part, cavity, or belly of a sail; the part of a furled sail which is at the center of the yard.
2. A push or shove; a butt.
3. 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.
4. The act of bunting.
5. The second half of an outside loop, from level flight to inverted flight.
6. A fungus (Ustilago foetida) affecting the ear of cereals, filling the grains with a foetid dust.

Verb

1. To push with the horns; to butt.
2. To spring or rear up.
3. To intentionally hit softly with a hands-spread batting stance.
4. To intentionally hit a ball softly with a hands-spread batting stance.
5. To perform (the second half of) an outside loop.
6. To swell out.
7. To headbutt affectionately.

Conceptos

tocar

topetar

toque

Sinónimos

butt

stinking smut

drag a bunt

headbutt

push

ram

🐏

Tilletia caries

Tilletia foetida

jar

🫙

knock

plunker

blight

bump around

shove

snick

strike

tap

sacrifice fly

bump

caries

flick

buffet

hit

Etimología (Inglés)

Unknown. Perhaps a nasalised variant of butt.