(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.
Example Sentences:
(1) 4.11am BST Dodgers 2 - Cardinals 2, bottom of 7th Jay bunts!
(2) 3.56am BST Rays 4 - Rangers 2, bottom of 8th Martin tries to lay down a bunt but he gets hit on the knuckle, which is not a hit by pitch because Martin was offering.
(3) "We sold nearly 300 miles of bunting, 159,000 flags and 49,000 mugs.
(4) It is concluded that photosensitive and photorefractory female redheaded bunting monitor the photoperiodic time by means of a circadian rhythm.
(5) In the glow of the thing's own flame they saw edificial flanks, the concrete and rust of them, the iron of the pylon barnacled, shaggy with benthic growth now lank gelatinous bunting.
(6) On Amazon, seven of the top 10 bestselling home and garden products are jubilee-related – flags, bunting, hats and balloons.
(7) @ClaridgesHotel apologies needed.” Lucy Bunting said : “Under the 2010 discrimination act, asking a bf’ing mother to cover up is illegal and disgusting behaviour!!!
(8) 4.51am BST Cardinals 5 - Nationals 6, Bottom 8th The "aggressive" (read: kind of impatient and often frustrating) shortstop Ian Desmond is up and he's definitely not bunting here.
(9) Madeleine Bunting makes some important points ( Our children really are facing a mental health crisis , 21 May).
(10) The situation is not pleasant,” the weekly, Bunte , quoted Blatter as saying in an interview.
(11) Ekkehart Gurlitt, a great cousin, told Bunte magazine that the collection belonged to Germany rather than the “small-town province” of Bern.
(12) In mainland Europe species said to have thrived thanks to the scheme include the little bustard in France, corn buntings in Denmark and birds of prey in Austria.
(13) On Bedloe’s Island, the centre of attraction, a large platform decorated with bunting in which the tricolour was conspicuous, was erected, and hither after the parade was over President Cleveland and the most distinguished American and French representatives were conducted.
(14) In the group of the so-called "bunte Atrophie" an alteration could be described which is of interest not only because it accounts for a quarter of all testicular atrophies but also because there is a difference between the slight histological alterations and the obviously serious clinical consequences.
(15) Our habitats are slowly dying and our natural capital – reflected by species such as birds and butterflies – is being put under enormous pressure from unsustainable agriculture and land use policies.” Ortolan bunting numbers have fallen by around half.
(16) It is too early to hang out any bunting but quietly, tentatively, a more upbeat mood is spreading in Detroit's downtrodden, downsized motor industry.
(17) Daniel Descalso greets him with a base hit, then Furcal moves him over to second with a sac bunt.
(18) In winter they often form mixed flocks and this can be a great way to spot them, although take extra care over identification of the group as finches and other buntings may also mix in with the flock.
(19) 11.33pm BST Rays 1 - Red Sox 3, bottom of the 3rd Shane Victorino lays down an uncharacteristically awful bunt, but Loney can't corral it in foul territory.
(20) Nor is it a justification for the bogus notions about sovereignty, the militarisation of immigration and customs functions, politicians dressing up as airforce pilots, bunting and flags and all the other manifestations of fear mongering and political insecurity.
Butt
Definition:
(v. t.) Alt. of But
(v. i.) To join at the butt, end, or outward extremity; to terminate; to be bounded; to abut.
(v. i.) To thrust the head forward; to strike by thrusting the head forward, as an ox or a ram. [See Butt, n.]
(v. t.) To strike by thrusting the head against; to strike with the head.
(n.) A large cask or vessel for wine or beer. It contains two hogsheads.
(n.) The common English flounder.
Example Sentences:
(1) Alan Pardew faces punishment from the Football Association for his head-butt on Hull City's David Meyler.
(2) Having long been accustomed to being the butt of other politicians' jokes, however, Farage is relishing what may yet become the last laugh.
(3) But I'm starting with the job that I can do something about right now – scrabbling around on the floor, picking up three-inch nails and cigarette butts so that the new four-year-olds will have somewhere safe to play at break.
(4) But in the case of what we were doing in the last few years, with bringing Nicky Butt into the fold, Ryan into the fold, Paul Scholes into the fold, and Gary Neville was offered a position but he decided to go into television.
(5) In one of his lunch breaks with Sleep, he told him that he had been tortured by the army, smashed over the head with the butt of an AK47 and left for dead.
(6) The intensity-measuring device in both apparatuses has a mobile disk attached to a motionless axis by a spiral spring; the clamps have fixing screws in the butts of a spong.
(7) Rainwater "harvesting" is the posh version of a water butt.
(8) The trial of the divorce suit brought by Captain O'Shea - Mr Parnell being the co-respondent - was resumed yesterday before Mr Justice Butt.
(9) He has such good body and he has really really good legs Butt… And he is slim tall and good skin."
(10) Paris is to fine smokers who throw their cigarette butts onto the street, the latest effort to clean up the French capital.
(11) The tail butt, esutcheon, belly, dewlap and to a lesser degree neck and ear were all very suitable sites on which to find cattle ticks.
(12) We know we’re not far away.” Butt admits his new role is not something he had planned, despite his long-standing association with the club.
(13) 3.48pm: The Pakistan high commissioner has stressed the innocence of Salman Butt, Mohammad Asif and Mohammad Amir, and spoken of their 'mental torture' 3.50pm: Tea at the Emirates ICG, where Durham are 170 for two, and now have a lead of 199, writes Andy Wilson .
(14) In 3 experiments, the activity of mainstream and sidestream Total Oarticulate Matter (TPM) and of butts and ash was determined.
(15) Three main groups of the sufferers were distinguished: with scalping of the I digit, with crushing of the digits and a skin defect of the butt-end of a hand stump, with totally scalped wounds of the hand and low third of the forearm.
(16) Each margin of the cavities was finished in one of three ways: butt joint and etching; butt joint and no etching, or; bevel joint and etching.
(17) Pigs fed ractopamine had shorter carcasses, less fat depth and fat area, smaller weights of stomach and colon plus rectum, but higher dressing percentages, longissimus muscle areas, weights of trimmed Boston butts, picnics and loins, ham lean and predicted amounts of muscle than pigs not fed ractopamine (P less than .05).
(18) The Liverpool striker leaned his forehead into Chiellini, in what looked, initially, to be a butt before biting down on his opponent’s shoulder.
(19) Rich people glide across it on skis and 4X4s, between resorts at Aspen, Crested Butte and Breckenridge.
(20) My uncle glances at her nicely rounded butt: – Nice fit lady, eh?