From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Punt \Punt\, n. (Football)
The act of punting the ball.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Punt \Punt\, v. i.
1. To boat or hunt in a punt.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]
2. To punt a football.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Punt \Punt\, v. i. [F. ponter, or It. puntare, fr. L. punctum
point. See {Point}.]
To play at basset, baccara, faro. or omber; to gamble.
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She heard . . . of his punting at gaming tables.
--Thackeray.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Punt \Punt\, n.
Act of playing at basset, baccara, faro, etc.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Punt \Punt\, n. [AS., fr. L. ponto punt, pontoon. See
{Pontoon}.] (Naut.)
A flat-bottomed boat with square ends. It is adapted for use
in shallow waters.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Punt \Punt\, v. t.
1. To propel, as a boat in shallow water, by pushing with a
pole against the bottom; to push or propel (anything) with
exertion. --Livingstone.
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2. (Football) To kick (the ball) before it touches the
ground, when let fall from the hands.
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
punt
n 1: formerly the basic unit of money in Ireland; equal to 100
pence [syn: {Irish pound}, {Irish punt}, {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; "the punt
traveled 50 yards"; "punting is an important part of the
game" [syn: {punt}, {punting}]
v 1: kick the ball
2: propel with a pole; "pole barges on the river"; "We went
punting in Cambridge" [syn: {punt}, {pole}]
3: place a bet on; "Which horse are you backing?"; "I'm betting
on the new horse" [syn: {bet on}, {back}, {gage}, {stake},
{game}, {punt}]
From The Jargon File (version 4.4.7, 29 Dec 2003) [jargon]:
punt
v.
[from the punch line of an old joke referring to American football: ?Drop
back 15 yards and punt!?]
1. To give up, typically without any intention of retrying. ?Let's punt the
movie tonight.? ?I was going to hack all night to get this feature in, but
I decided to punt? may mean that you've decided not to stay up all night,
and may also mean you're not ever even going to put in the feature.
2. More specifically, to give up on figuring out what the {Right Thing} is
and resort to an inefficient hack.
3. A design decision to defer solving a problem, typically because one
cannot define what is desirable sufficiently well to frame an algorithmic
solution. ?No way to know what the right form to dump the graph in is ?
we'll punt that for now.?
4. To hand a tricky implementation problem off to some other section of the
design. ?It's too hard to get the compiler to do that; let's punt to the
runtime system.?
5. To knock someone off an Internet or chat connection; a punter thus, is a
person or program that does this.
From Dutch-English Freedict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 [fd-nld-eng]:
punt /pɵnt/
1. element; fragment; item; particle
2. peak; point; tip; summit
3. point
4. dot; period; point; spot
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