bunt

bunt has 10 senses in the JumbleFix dictionary. Letters: 4.

Definitions

• n.. A fungus (Ustilago foetida) which affects the ear of cereals, filling the grains with a fetid dust; -- also called pepperbrand.
• n.. The middle part, cavity, or belly of a sail; the part of a furled sail which is at the center of the yard.
• v. i.. To swell out; as, the sail bunts.
• v. t. & i.. To strike or push with the horns or head; to butt; as, the ram bunted the boy.
• n.. (baseball) the act of hitting a baseball lightly without swinging the bat
• n.. fungus that destroys kernels of wheat by replacing them with greasy masses of smelly spores
• n.. similar to Tilletia caries
• n.. disease of wheat characterized by replacement of the grains with greasy masses of smelly smut spores
• v.. to strike, thrust or shove against; "He butted his sister out of the way"; "The goat butted the hiker with his horns"
• v.. hit a ball in such a way so as to make it go a short distance