2. Verb. (third-person singular of punt) ¹
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Definition of Punts
1. punt [v] - See also: punt
Lexicographical Neighbors of Punts
Literary usage of Punts
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Instructions to Young Sportsmen: In All that Relates to Guns and Shooting by Peter Hawker, William Trotter Porter (1846)
"Have your canoes and punts, previously to being put together, ... Have the outside
of all your punts and canoes painted, with the very best white lead; ..."
2. Shooting: By Lord Walsingham and Sir Ralph Payne-Gallwey, Bt. by Thomas de Grey Walsingham, Ralph Payne-Gallwey, Gerald William Lascelles, Archibald John Stuart-Wortley, Simon Fraser Lovat, Charles Lennox Kerr (1886)
"SINGLE punts are of different sizes, very narrow or of larger dimensions. ...
Both these punts, when not actually approaching birds by paddling, sculling, ..."
3. Instructions to Young Sportsmen in All that Relates to Guns and Shooting by Peter Hawker (1859)
"DRESSING FOR punts AND CANOES. To keep gunning punts and canoes from leaking,
... Have your canoes and punts, previously to being put together, ..."
4. Instructions to Young Sportsmen in All that Relates to Guns and Shooting by Peter Hawker (1826)
"To keep gunning punts and canoes from leaking, or, as those who use them call
it, weeping, ... Have your canoes and punts, previously to being put together, ..."
5. Instructions to Young Sportsmen in All that Relates to Guns and Shooting by Peter Hawker (1826)
"To keep gunning punts and canoes from leaking, or, as those who use them call
it, weeping, ... Have your canoes and punts, previously to being put together, ..."
6. Football, the American Intercollegiate Game by Parke Hill Davis (1911)
"Brown punts to Princeton's 30. Smith goes through tackle for 2. ... Several exchanges
of punts ensue. Brown tries for a field goal, but misses. ..."
7. Transatlantic Sketches, Comprising Visits to the Most Interesting Scenes in by James Edward Alexander (1833)
"Ladies of Quality.—Creole Dance.— The poor oppressed Slaves.—Insect serenade.—Ride
round the estate.— A plantain thief—Walks. — Canals punts.—Cattle. ..."
8. Transatlantic Sketches, Comprising Visits to the Most Interesting Scenes in by James Edward Alexander (1833)
"punts.—Cattle.—A Field-gang.—Book-keeper and Driver.— Studies for a
Statuary.—Breakfast.—A Jaguar at the Hog-pen.—Dutch Coffins and Land-crabs. ..."
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