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Type Words
Synonyms drag a bunt
Type of hit
Derivation bunter
Type Words
Synonyms tilletia caries
Type of smut fungus, smut
Type Words
Synonyms stinking smut, tilletia foetida
Type of smut fungus, smut
Type Words
Synonyms stinking smut
Type of smut
Type Words
Synonyms butt
Type of strike
Has types headbutt
Type Words
Type of striking, hit, hitting

Examples of bunt

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After Megan Tarin led off with a walk, the sacrifice bunt attempt was popped up.
From the stltoday.com
Lansford asked Stewart how many times he tried to bunt for a base hit last year.
From the denverpost.com
Johnny Damon followed with a bunt single against the Royals'overshifted infield.
From the kansas.com
Edwin Encarnacion led off with a single and Mike McCoy reached on a bunt single.
From the freep.com
After Carlos Ruiz led off with a single, Hamels dropped a bunt to the left side.
From the jsonline.com
Maybe Scott Eyre would have injured himself charging a bunt in baseball weather.
From the sacbee.com
Aybar, who also had two bunt singles, connected off Randy Williams in the ninth.
From the dailynews.com
Corey Patterson, 4-for-5 on the night, led off with a perfect bunt for a single.
From the news.enquirer.com
Milwaukee finished the night with just four singles, and one of them was a bunt.
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  • (baseball) the act of hitting a baseball lightly without swinging the bat
  • Hit a ball in such a way so as to make it go a short distance
  • Disease of wheat characterized by replacement of the grains with greasy masses of smelly smut spores
  • Butt: to strike, thrust or shove against; "He butted his sister out of the way"; "The goat butted the hiker with his horns"
  • Similar to Tilletia caries
  • A bunt is a special type of offensive technique in baseball or fastpitch softball. In a bunt play, the batter loosely holds the bat in front of the plate and intentionally taps the ball into play.
  • Bunt (/u02C8bu028Cnt/, previously spelled Bant and also known as Nadava) is a community from Karnataka, India. They are traditionally found in the coastal and Kodagu districts of Karnataka. The Bunts are described as being the landed gentry and military class of the cultural region known as Tulu Nadu. A majority of Bunts traditionally followed the Hindu religion with a minority being Jain...
  • A bunt is a musical instrument loosely related to the electric guitar, popularised by the cult British pop band Disco Bitch in the mid-1990s. The Bunt was first utilised by proto-grunge outfit Balooon Samwidge between 1991-92. (See Essex County Standard, February 14 and March 29, 1991)
  • The bunt of a sail is the middle part of it, which is purposely formed into a kind of curved bag, or cavity, so that the sail might receive more wind. It is chiefly used in top sails, for courses are for the most part cut square, or at least with a small allowance, for bunt or compass.