Definition of punts Punts
/pʌˈnts/ - [punts] -
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What does punts mean?
Wiktionary 
- punts (Noun)
Plural of punt.
Part of speech
🔤WordNet
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| punt - (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" | ||
| punting | ||
| kicking, kick, boot the act of delivering a blow with the foot; "he gave the ball a powerful kick"; "the team's kicking was excellent" | ||
| football game, football any of various games played with a ball (round or oval) in which two teams try to kick or carry or propel the ball into each other's goal | ||
| punt - an open flat-bottomed boat used in shallow waters and propelled by a long pole | ||
| boat a small vessel for travel on water | ||
Verb |
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| punt - propel with a pole; "pole barges on the river"; "We went punting in Cambridge" | ||
| pole | ||
| impel, propel urge or force (a person) to an action; constrain or motivate | ||
| punt - kick the ball | ||
| kick make a goal; "He kicked the extra point after touchdown" | ||
| athletics, sport participation in sports events as an extracurricular activity | ||
| punt - place a bet on; "Which horse are you backing?"; "I'm betting on the new horse" | ||
| bet on, back, gage, stake, game | ||
| wager, bet, play maintain with or as if with a bet; "I bet she will be there!" | ||
| ante place one's stake | ||
| parlay, double up stake winnings from one bet on a subsequent wager | ||
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Wiktionary
- punt (Noun)
A pontoon; a narrow shallow boat propelled by a pole. - punt (Noun)
A kick made by a player who drops the ball and kicks it before it hits the ground. Contrast drop kick . - punt (Noun)
A point in the game of faro. - punt (Noun)
The act of playing at basset, baccara, faro, etc. - punt (Noun)
A bet or wager. - punt (Noun)
An indentation in the base of a wine bottle. - punt (Noun)
A thin glass rod which is temporarily attached to a larger piece in order to better manipulate the larger piece. - punt (Noun)
The Irish pound, used as the unit of currency of Ireland until it was replaced by the euro in 2002. - punt (Verb)
To propel a punt or similar craft by means of a pole. - punt (Verb)
To kick a ball dropped from the hands before it hits the ground. - punt (Verb)
To kick a bouncing ball far and high. - punt (Verb)
To retreat from one's objective. - punt (Verb)
To stake against the bank, to back a horse, to gamble or take a chance more generally. - punt (Verb)
To make a highly speculative investment or other commitment, or take a wild guess.
Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘
- punt (v. i.)
To play at basset, baccara, faro. or omber; to gamble. - punt (n.)
Act of playing at basset, baccara, faro, etc. - punt (n.)
A flat-bottomed boat with square ends. It is adapted for use in shallow waters. - punt (v. t.)
To propel, as a boat in shallow water, by pushing with a pole against the bottom; to push or propel (anything) with exertion. - punt (v. t.)
To kick (the ball) before it touches the ground, when let fall from the hands. - punt (n.)
The act of punting the ball.
Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary 📕
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punt
punt, n. a flat-bottomed boat with square ends.—v.t. to propel, as a boat, by pushing with a pole against the bottom of a river: to kick the ball (in football) before it touches the ground, when let fall from the hands: to knock.—v.i. to pursue water-fowl in a punt with a punt-gun.—ns. Punt′er; Punt′-fishing, angling from a punt in a pond, river, or lake; Punt′-gun, a heavy gun of large bore used for shooting water-fowl from a punt; Punts′man, a sportsman who uses a punt. [A.S.,—L. ponto, a punt—pons, pontis, a bridge.] -
punt
punt, v.i. to play at basset or ombre.—n. Punt′er, one who marks the points in basset or ombre. [Fr., through Sp.—L. punctum, a point.]
Marine DictionaryUniversal Dictionary of the Marine ⚓️
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punt
a sort of flat-bottomed boat, whose floor resembles the platform of a floating-stage. It is used by the naval artificers, either in calking, breaming, or repairing the bottom of a ship.
Sailor's Word-BookThe Sailor's Word-Book ⛵
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punt
An Anglo-Saxon term still in use for a flat-bottomed boat, used by fishermen, or for ballast lumps, &c.
Wikipedia 
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A punt is a flat boat with a broad front, designed for use in small rivers or other shallow water.
Punting means boating in a punt. The punter pushes a pole against the river bed and this gives the punt a way to move.
Punts were originally built as cargo boats or platforms, for shooting at birds and fishing, but in modern times they are mostly used for pleasure trips on the rivers in the university towns of Oxford and Cambridge in England, and are raced at summer regattas on the Thames.
Punt poles.
Poles for pleasure punts are normally made of spruce, or aluminium. A normal pole is about 12–16 feet (4–5 m) long and weighs about 10 lb (5 kg). In Oxford and Cambridge 16 ft long poles are sometimes used.
The bottom of the pole is fitted with a metal "shoe", a rounded lump of metal to protect the end — the shoe is sometimes made in the shape of a swallow tail.
