Sc. and dial. [Var. and perh. more original form of BUN sb.3] The tail of a hare or rabbit.
1805. A. Scott, Hares Compl., in Poems, 79 (Jam.). A strolling hound Had near hand catched me by the bunt.
1877. E. Peacock, N. W. Lincoln. Gloss., Bunt, the tail of a rabbit.