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Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Bunt \Bunt\, n.
   A push or shove; a butt; specif. (Baseball), the act of
   bunting the ball.

Bunt \Bunt\, v. t. & i. (Baseball)
   To bat or tap (the ball) slowly within the infield by meeting
   it with the bat without swinging at it.

Bunt \Bunt\, n. (Bot.)
   A fungus ({Ustilago f[oe]tida}) which affects the ear of
   cereals, filling the grains with a fetid dust; -- also called
   pepperbrand.

Bunt \Bunt\, n. [Cf. Sw. bunt bundle, Dan. bundt, G. bund, E.
   bundle.] (Naut.)
   The middle part, cavity, or belly of a sail; the part of a
   furled sail which is at the center of the yard. --Totten.

Bunt \Bunt\, v. i. (Naut.)
   To swell out; as, the sail bunts.

Bunt \Bunt\, v. t. & i.
   To strike or push with the horns or head; to butt; as, the
   ram bunted the boy.

Source : WordNet®

bunt
     n 1: (baseball) the act of hitting a baseball lightly without
          swinging the bat
     2: disease of wheat characterized by replacement of the grains
        with greasy masses of smelly smut spores [syn: {stinking
        smut}]
     3: similar to Tilletia caries [syn: {stinking smut}, {Tilletia
        foetida}]
     4: fungus that destroys kernels of wheat by replacing them with
        greasy masses of smelly spores [syn: {Tilletia caries}]
     v 1: hit a ball in such a way so as to make it go a short
          distance [syn: {drag a bunt}]
     2: to strike, thrust or shove against, often with head or
        horns; "He butted his sister out of the way" [syn: {butt}]
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