BUNTING

To push with the horns; to butt.

To spring or rear up.

To intentionally hit softly with a hands-spread batting stance.

Example: "Jones bunted the ball."

To intentionally hit a ball softly with a hands-spread batting stance.

Example: "Jones bunted."

To perform (the second half of) an outside loop.

Example: "We had heard that there was an elite group of three or four pilots in jodhpur called the "bunt club", who had successfully bunted their aircraft - that is, carried out the second half of an outside loop. in the bunt, you pushed the nose down, past the vertical and still further, until you were in horizontal inverted flight, and came out on the other side and rolled it out."

To swell out.

Example: "The sail bunts."

(of a cat) to headbutt affectionately.