bunt

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. v. Baseball To bat (a pitched ball) by tapping it lightly so that the ball rolls slowly in front of the infielders.
2. v. Baseball To cause (a base runner) to advance or (a run) to score by bunting.
3. v. To push or strike with or as if with the head; butt.
4. v. Baseball To bunt a pitched ball: The batter squared away to bunt.
5. v. To butt.
6. n. Baseball The act of bunting.
7. n. Baseball A bunted ball.
8. n. A butt with or as if with the head.
9. n. The middle portion of a sail, especially a square one, that is shaped like a pouch to increase the effect of the wind.
10. n. The pouchlike midsection of a fishing net in which the catch is concentrated.
11. n. A smut disease of wheat and other cereal grasses, caused by fungi of the genus Tilletia and resulting in grains filled with foul-smelling, sooty black spores. Also called stinking smut.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. To push with the horns or head, as a goat or a calf.
2. To spring; rear.
3. n. A push with the head, or the head and horns.
4. n. The middle part of a square sail; also, the middle, baggy part of a net, etc.
5. To swell out; belly, as a sail.
6. To sift.
7. n. A smut which infests and destroys the kernels of wheat; an ustilagineous fungus, Tilletia caries, which causes serious damage in Europe, and is becoming troublesome in America. The common smut of wheat and oats in the United States is Ustilago carbo, and is not called bunt. Also called bladder-brand.
8. n. A name sometimes given to the puffball, Lycoperdon.
9. In baseball, to block (the ball) with the bat, so that it goes to the ground and rolls only a short distance.
10. n. A blunt stone arrow-head with rounded edge in place of a point.

Wiktionary

1. n. The middle part, cavity, or belly of a sail; the part of a furled sail which is at the center of the yard.
2. n. baseball, softball 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.
3. n. baseball, softball The act of bunting
4. n. aviation The second half of an outside loop, from level flight to inverted flight.
5. v. transitive, baseball to intentionally hit softly with a hands-spread batting stance
6. v. intransitive, baseball to intentionally hit a ball softly with a hands-spread batting stance
7. v. intransitive, aviation to perform (the second half of) an outside loop.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. (Bot.) A fungus (Ustilago fœtida) which affects the ear of cereals, filling the grains with a fetid dust; -- also called pepperbrand.
2. n. (Naut.) The middle part, cavity, or belly of a sail; the part of a furled sail which is at the center of the yard.
3. n. (Baseball) A push or shove; a butt the act of bunting the ball.
4. v. (Naut.) To swell out.
5. v. To strike or push with the horns or head; to butt.
6. v. (Baseball) To bat or tap (the ball) slowly within the infield by meeting it with the bat without swinging at it.

WordNet 3.0

1. n. disease of wheat characterized by replacement of the grains with greasy masses of smelly smut spores
2. n. fungus that destroys kernels of wheat by replacing them with greasy masses of smelly spores
3. n. similar to Tilletia caries
4. v. to strike, thrust or shove against
5. n. (baseball) the act of hitting a baseball lightly without swinging the bat
6. v. hit a ball in such a way so as to make it go a short distance