about the word"bunt"
1,The ox bunted my car very hard.
2,The sail bunted with the wind.
Are they both correct sentences?
And what other meaning could"bunt" have?
Thank you for your help in advance.
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Answers · 7
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Both sentences are fine.
In the first one, bunt is a synonym for butt.
Bunt is also a baseball term, but it has other meanings too.
2
To me - to bunt is to hit something. So 1 would be OK, but 2 is not. I have heard the word used, and used it myself, but it certainly isn't common.
1
'Bunt' is, I believe, a baseball term, but I have never heard it used in everyday English.
To be honest, those sentences would mean nothing at all to most English speakers.
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Yeah, it's a way of batting a baseball. It means to hold the bat a little lower than usual and also at an angle more parallel with the ground, and then hit the ball with less force. I think also having more distance between the two gripping hands than is usual.
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Weiyang, according to Oxford advanced learner's dictionary, "bunt" is "to deliberately hit the ball (baseball) only a short distance". I suppose it should not be used in these sentences.
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