Punt or punting may refer to:
Boats
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Punt (boat)
A punt is a flat-bottomed boat with a square-cut bow, designed for use in small rivers or other shallow water. Punting is boating in a punt. The punter generally propels the punt by pushing against the river bed with a pole. A punt should not ...
, a flat-bottomed boat with a square-cut bow developed on the River Thames
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Falmouth Quay Punt, a small sailing vessel hired by ships anchored in Falmouth harbour
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Norfolk Punt, a type of racing dinghy developed in Norfolk
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Cable ferry, known as a punt in Australian English
Places
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Land of Punt, a trading partner of Ancient Egypt, considered by many scholars to be in the Horn of Africa
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Puntland, a region in north-eastern Somalia, centered on Garowe in the Nugaal province
Sports and recreation
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Punt (gridiron football)
In gridiron football, a punt is a kick performed by dropping the ball from the hands and then kicking the ball before it hits the ground. The most common use of this tactic is to punt the ball downfield to the opposing team, usually on the final d ...
, a way of kicking a ball in the American or Canadian varieties of football
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Punt (Australian football)
The punt kick is a common style of kicking in Australian rules football. It is a kick where the ball is dropped from the players' hands and kicked slightly off the longer center line of the ball before it hits the ground. It is the primary mea ...
, a way of kicking a ball in the Australian variety of football
* A type of
goal kick in association football
Other uses
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Punt (surname) Punt is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
* Anita Punt (born 1987), New Zealand field hockey player
* Harald Punt (born 1952), Dutch rower
* Jos Punt (born 1946), Dutch bishop
* Piet Punt (1909–1973), Dutch footballer
* Steve ...
, a surname
* ''Punt'', ''Punt Éireannach'' or
Irish pound
The pound (Irish: ) was the currency of the Republic of Ireland until 2002. Its ISO 4217 code was IEP, and the symbol was £ (or IR£ for distinction). The Irish pound was replaced by the euro on 1 January 1999. Euro currency did not begin cir ...
, pre-euro currency
* ''
El Punt'', a Catalan newspaper
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Punt gun, a type of extremely large shotgun, mounted directly on punt boats
* A punt or
punty
Glassblowing is a glassforming technique that involves inflating molten glass into a bubble (or parison) with the aid of a blowpipe (or blow tube). A person who blows glass is called a ''glassblower'', ''glassmith'', or ''gaffer''. A ''lampworker ...
, a tool used in glassblowing
* A punt mark or
pontil mark, left by the glassblowing tool
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Punt (wine bottle)
A wine bottle is a bottle, generally a glass bottle, that is used for holding wine. Some wines are fermentation (wine), fermented in the bottle while others are bottled only after fermentation. Recently the bottle has become a standard unit of v ...
, the indented bottom of a wine bottle
* Punt, a colloquial term in British English for bet or wager in
gambling
* PUNT, the Spanish acronym of the
United National Workers' Party
The United National Workers' Party ( es, Partido Único Nacional de los Trabajadores, lit=Sole National Workers' Party, PUNT) was a political party in Equatorial Guinea. It was the only political party in the country from 1970 to 1979, during t ...
, a former political party in Equatorial Guinea
See also
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Punter (disambiguation)
Punter may refer to:
Personal roles
* Punter (card game), person who lays bets in a banking game
* Punter (football), a position in American or Canadian football
* Someone who uses a punt (boat)
* Punter, a Puntite
* Client (prostitution), in ...
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Pundt Pundt is a surname. Notable people with this surname include:
* Hermann Pundt (1928–2000), American architect
* Lockett Pundt (born 1982), American musician
See also
* Punt (surname) Punt is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
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