1. (baseball) the act of hitting a baseball lightly without swinging the bat 
2. Disease of wheat characterized by replacement of the grains with greasy masses of smelly smut spores
   - stinking smut 
3. Similar to Tilletia caries
   - stinking smut, Tilletia foetida 
4. Fungus that destroys kernels of wheat by replacing them with greasy masses of smelly spores
   - Tilletia caries

1. Hit a ball in such a way so as to make it go a short distance
   - drag a bunt 
2. To strike, thrust or shove against
   - butt

Derived forms: bunted, bunts, bunting

See also: bunter

Type of: hit, hitting, smut, smut fungus, strike, striking

Part of: genus Tilletia, Tilletia

Encyclopedia: Bunt Bunt,caste

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