bunt /bʌnt/noun 7verb 7forms 3 noun7 •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.The bunt was fielded cleanly. •The act of bunting.The manager will likely call for a bunt here. •The second half of an outside loop, from level flight to inverted flight. •Any large pilot-commanded pitch-down motion of an aircraft, often producing negative G-forces and resulting in a large negative change in flightpath angle. •A push or shove; a butt. •The middle part, cavity, or belly of a sail; the part of a furled sail which is at the center of the yard.The bunt of the sail was green. •A fungus (Ustilago foetida) affecting the ear of cereals, filling the grains with a foetid dust. verb7 •To intentionally hit softly with a hands-spread batting stance.Jones bunted the ball. •To intentionally hit a ball softly with a hands-spread batting stance.Jones bunted. •To push with the horns; to butt. •(rare) To headbutt affectionately. •To swell out.The sail bunts. •To perform (the second half of) an outside loop. •To spring or rear up. formsbunted · bunting · bunts