Naut. [f. BUNT sb.1]

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  1.  trans. ‘To haul up the middle part of (a sail) in furling’ (Smyth, Sailor’s Word-bk.).

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1611.  Cotgr., Bourser, to bunt, or leaue a bunt in a sayle.

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1756.  Gentl. Mag., XXVI. 449. Haul’d up my courses, bunted my main sail.

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  2.  intr. Of a sail: To swell, to belly.

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1681.  [see BUNTING vbl. sb.].

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1755.  in Johnson, and in mod. Dicts. (Not in Smyth, Sailor’s Word-bk.)

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