Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Bunt

Bunt (bunt) , noun

(Botany) A fungus (Ustilago fotida) which affects the ear of cereals, filling the grains with a fetid dust; -- also called pepperbrand.

Bunt , noun

[Compare Swedish bunt bundle, Danish bundt, German bund, English bundle.]

(Nautical) 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 , noun

(Baseball) A push or shove; a butt;
(Baseball) the act of bunting the ball.

Bunt , intransitive verb

(Nautical) To swell out; as, the sail bunts.

Bunt , verb, transitive and intransitive

1.
To strike or push with the horns or head; to butt; as, the ram bunted the boy.
2.
(Baseball) To bat or tap (the ball) slowly within the infield by meeting it with the bat without swinging at it.