bunt

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• noun A smut disease of wheat and other cereal grasses, caused by fungi of the genus Tilletia and resulting in grains filled with foul-smelling, sooty black spores.
• intransitive verb To bat (a pitched ball) by tapping it lightly so that the ball rolls slowly in front of the infielders.
• intransitive verb To cause (a base runner) to advance or (a run) to score by bunting.
• intransitive verb To push or strike with or as if with the head; butt.
• intransitive verb Baseball To bunt a pitched ball.
• intransitive verb To butt.
• noun The act of bunting.
• noun A bunted ball.
• noun A butt with or as if with the head.
• noun The middle portion of a sail, especially a square one, that is shaped like a pouch to increase the effect of the wind.
• noun The pouchlike midsection of a fishing net in which the catch is concentrated.

from The Century Dictionary.

• To push with the horns or head, as a goat or a calf.
• To spring; rear.
• To swell out; belly, as a sail.
• To sift.
• noun A push with the head, or the head and horns.
• noun A blunt stone arrow-head with rounded edge in place of a point.
• In baseball, to block (the ball) with the bat, so that it goes to the ground and rolls only a short distance.
• noun A smut which infests and destroys the kernels of wheat; an ustilagineous fungus, Tilletia caries, which causes serious damage in Europe, and is becoming troublesome in America.
• noun A name sometimes given to the puffball, Lycoperdon.
• noun The middle part of a square sail; also, the middle, baggy part of a net, etc.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• noun (Naut.) The middle part, cavity, or belly of a sail; the part of a furled sail which is at the center of the yard.
• noun (Bot.) A fungus (Ustilago fœtida) which affects the ear of cereals, filling the grains with a fetid dust; -- also called pepperbrand.
• noun (Baseball) A push or shove; a butt
• intransitive verb (Naut.) To swell out.
• verb To strike or push with the horns or head; to butt.
• verb (Baseball) To bat or tap (the ball) slowly within the infield by meeting it with the bat without swinging at it.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• noun The middle part, cavity, or belly of a sail; the part of a furled sail which is at the center of the yard.
• noun baseball, softball A ball that has been intentionally hit softly so as to be difficult to field, sometimes with a hands-spread batting stance or with a close-hand, choked-up hand position. No swinging action is involved.
• noun baseball, softball The act of bunting
• noun aviation The second half of an outside loop, from level flight to inverted flight.
• verb transitive, baseball to intentionally hit softly with a hands-spread batting stance
• verb intransitive, baseball to intentionally hit a ball softly with a hands-spread batting stance
• verb intransitive, aviation to perform (the second half of) an outside loop.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• noun disease of wheat characterized by replacement of the grains with greasy masses of smelly smut spores
• noun fungus that destroys kernels of wheat by replacing them with greasy masses of smelly spores
• noun similar to Tilletia caries
• verb to strike, thrust or shove against
• noun (baseball) the act of hitting a baseball lightly without swinging the bat
• verb hit a ball in such a way so as to make it go a short distance