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Punt   /pənt/   Listen
Punt

noun
1.
Formerly the basic unit of money in Ireland; equal to 100 pence.  Synonyms: Irish pound, Irish punt, pound.
2.
An open flat-bottomed boat used in shallow waters and propelled by a long pole.
3.
(football) a kick in which the football is dropped from the hands and kicked before it touches the ground.  Synonym: punting.  "Punting is an important part of the game"
verb
1.
Kick the ball.
2.
Propel with a pole.  Synonym: pole.  "We went punting in Cambridge"
3.
Place a bet on.  Synonyms: back, bet on, gage, game, stake.  "I'm betting on the new horse"



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"Punt" Quotes from Famous Books



... so too, sir; there is no room for the oars, and we shall either have to punt the boats, or to drag them by ...
— Among Malay Pirates - And Other Tales Of Adventure And Peril • G. A. Henty
... know a Manor by the Thames; I've seen it oft through beechen stems In leafy Summer weather; We've moored the punt its lawns beside Where peacocks strut in flaunting pride, The Muse ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, November 4, 1914 • Various
... or ever disturbed. Nevertheless, they are tolerably wary, which, of course, increases the sport of shooting them. I have often thought what a paradise these lakes would have made for the veteran Colonel Hawker with his punt gun. He might have paddled about and blazed away to ...
— Eight Years' Wandering in Ceylon • Samuel White Baker
... on the water with her brother, she knew well how to handle an oar. Often, indeed, without him she had paddled a passenger across the ferry in her little canoe. He accepted her proposal, and we had the satisfaction of seeing the light punt put off from the shore opposite to that from which we were idly and uselessly looking on, and go gallantly over the surging torrent toward the sinking men. We feared, however, that it would not be in time to save them, as ...
— Thrilling Adventures by Land and Sea • James O. Brayman
... Drewitt's fears for his leg became almost contagious. At the old stone bridge, spanning the river at the bottom of the High Street, he paused, and, resting his arms on the parapet, became intent on a derelict punt. On the subject of sitting in a craft of that description in mid-stream catching fish he discoursed at such length that the girl eyed ...
— Dialstone Lane, Complete • W.W. Jacobs


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