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Look up Punt in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.

Punt can mean the following: Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... Wiktionary is a Wikimedia Foundation project intended to be a free wiki dictionary (hence: Wiktionary) (including thesaurus and lexicon) in every language. ...

  • a kind of boat; see punt (boat); in Australia a cable ferry.
  • an ancient nation from Africa; see Land of Punt
  • Punt - a free 3D Globe Viewer (Open Source)
  • an action in American football (see punt (football)), Australian rules football and Rugby football
  • the indentation on the bottom of a Wine bottle
  • the Irish-language word for Irish pound. The term was often used in English to refer specifically to the Irish pound (the former currency of Ireland), replaced in 2002 by the Euro.
  • as a verb (derived from the American football meaning) can colloquially mean the conscious act of ignoring responsibilities for class assignments or work, as in, "I punted on my homework last night," or "I'm punting the study group for the exam." It also means to do something without proper preparation or planning by making it up on the spot, as in "We'll just punt." Similar usage is common in U.S. business, industry, and engineering circles as in declining to tackle a problem or giving others (perhaps better qualified, more ambitious or merely needing the work) the opportunity to shine or fail.
  • In Australia or the United Kingdom, a slang term for gambling, i.e. "Take a punt." See punter, a British English and Australian English term for a gambler.

Punt may also refer to: Punts on the Cam A punt is a flat-bottomed boat with a square-cut bow, designed for use in small rivers or other shallow water. ... Coin operated cable ferry at Espevær in Bømlo, Norway A cable ferry is a means of water transportation by which a ferry or other boat is propelled and guided across a river or other larger body of water by means of cables or chains connected to both shores. ... The Land of Punt, which the Ancient Egyptians called Ta Netjeru, meaning Land of the Gods, was a fabled and exotic site in eastern Africa, which carried on extensive trade with Ancient Egypt, China and Arabia. ... United States simply as football, is a competitive team sport that is both fast-paced and strategic. ... Todd Sauerbrun, one of the NFLs top punters, punts the ball for the Carolina Panthers. ... Australian Rules and Aussie Rules redirect here. ... A Rugby player Rugby football refers to sports descended from a common form of football developed at Rugby School. ... A wine bottle is a bottle used for holding wine, generally made of glass. ... Irish (Gaeilge), a Goidelic language spoken in the Republic of Ireland, the United Kingdom, Canada, and the United States, is constitutionally recognized as the first official language of the Republic of Ireland. ... The harp has long been associated with the Irish pound, here on a 1990 Irish pound coin. ... The harp has long been associated with the Irish pound, here on a 1990 Irish pound coin. ... For the Cusco album, see 2002 (album). ... The euro (plural euro--but note linguistic issues concerning the euro, symbol: €; banking code: EUR) is the official currency of the European Union and single currency for over 300 million Europeans in the following twelve European Union member states: Austria, Belgium, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands... The word punter, when used alone, has several possible meanings in the English language: For someone who uses a pole to operate a boat, see Punt (boat). ... British English (BrE) is a term used (especially by Americans) to differentiate between the form of the English language used in the United Kingdom and those used elsewhere. ... Australian English (AuE), pejoratively known as strine, is the form of the English language used in Australia. ... Gambling (or betting) is any behavior involving the risk of money or valuables on the outcome of a game, contest, or other event in which the outcome of that activity is partially or totally dependent upon chance. ...


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Punt (boat) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (3479 words)
Punts were originally built as cargo boats or platforms for fowling and angling but in modern times their use is almost exclusively confined to pleasure trips on the rivers in the university towns of Oxford and Cambridge in England and races at a few summer regattas on the Thames.
Punting is a popular leisure activity on the rivers of several well-known tourist destinations: there are commercial organizations that offer punts for hire on the Avon in Bath, the Cam in Cambridge, the Cherwell and Isis in Oxford, at Stratford-on-Avon, and on the lower Thames near Sunbury.
Punting is the traditional means of navigating the myriad waterways of the Marais Poitevin ("La Venise Verte"), an area of marsh land criss-crossed with canals north of La Rochelle in Poitou-Charentes, France.
André Punt—Publications (8319 words)
Punt, A.E. Preliminary assessment of the population of gummy shark (Mustelus antarcticus) in Bass Strait.
Punt, A.E. Assessment of the population of gummy shark (Mustelus antarcticus) in Bass Strait.
Punt, A.E. An assessment of the population of gummy shark (Mustelus antarcticus) in Bass Strait.
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