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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Punt \Punt\, noun (Football) The act of punting the ball.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Punt \Punt\, verb (used without an object)
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.0.44 [gcide]:
Punt \Punt\, verb (used without an object) [F. ponter, or It. puntare, fr. L. punctum point. See {Point}.] To play at basset, baccara, faro. or omber; to gamble.
She heard . . . of his punting at gaming tables. --Thackeray.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Punt \Punt\, noun Act of playing at basset, baccara, faro, etc.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Punt \Punt\, noun [AS., fr. L. ponto punt, pontoon. See {Pontoon}.] (Naut.) A flat-bottomed boat with square ends. It is adapted for use in shallow waters.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Punt \Punt\, verb (used with an object)
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.
2. (Football) To kick (the ball) before it touches the ground, when let fall from the hands.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
punt
noun
1: formerly the basic unit of money in Ireland; equal to 100 pence [syn: {Irish pound}, {Irish 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: {punting}]
verb
1: kick the ball
2: propel with a pole; "pole barges on the river"; "We went punting in Cambridge" [syn: {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}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
47 Moby Thesaurus words for "punt": ante, ante up, back, bet, bet on, boot, calcitration, call, catch a crab, cover, cut a crab, drop kick, fade, feather, feather an oar, gamble, give way, hazard, kick, kicking, knee, lay, lay a wager, lay down, make a bet, meet a bet, pace, paddle, parlay, pass, place kick, play against, plunge, ply the oar, pull, row, row away, row dry, scull, see, ship oars, shoot, sky an oar, speculate, stake, stand pat, wager
From Jargon File (4.3.1, 29 Jun 2001) [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 The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:
punt (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 run-time system." [{Jargon File}]
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