Punt or punting may refer to:

Boats

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 *

Falmouth Quay Punt The Falmouth Quay Punt was a type of working sailing vessel in the port of Falmouth, Cornwall in the 19th and early 20th century. They would be hired by merchant ships anchored in Carrick Roads – to carry stores, mail and passengers. Falmouth ...

, a small sailing vessel hired by ships anchored in Falmouth harbour * Norfolk Punt, a type of racing dinghy developed in Norfolk *

Cable ferry A cable ferry (including the terms chain ferry, swing ferry, floating bridge, or punt) is a ferry that is guided (and in many cases propelled) across a river or large body of water by cables connected to both shores. Early cable ferries often ...

, known as a punt in Australian English

Places

Land of Punt The Land of Punt ( Egyptian: '' pwnt''; alternate Egyptological readings ''Pwene''(''t'') /pu:nt/) was an ancient kingdom known from Ancient Egyptian trade records. It produced and exported gold, aromatic resins, blackwood, ebony, ivory an ...

, a trading partner of Ancient Egypt, considered by many scholars to be in the Horn of Africa *

Puntland Puntland ( so, Puntland, ar, أرض البنط, it, Terra di Punt or ''Paese di Punt''), officially the Puntland State of Somalia ( so, Dowlad Goboleedka Puntland ee Soomaaliya, ar, ولاية أرض البنط الصومالية), is a F ...

, a region in north-eastern Somalia, centered on Garowe in the Nugaal province

Sports and recreation

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 *

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 me ...

, a way of kicking a ball in the Australian variety of football * A type of

goal kick A goal kick is a method of restarting the play in a game of association football. Its procedure is dictated by Law 16 of the Laws of the Game. Award A goal kick is awarded to the defending team when the ball goes out of the field of play by cr ...

in association football

Other uses

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 ''El Punt'' (, meaning in English "The Point") was a Catalan daily newspaper based in Girona, Catalonia (Spain). The newspaper was renamed in 1990 from the original ''Punt Diari'' ('Daily Point'). It was published between 24 February 1979 and 31 ...

'', a Catalan newspaper *

Punt gun A punt gun is a type of extremely large shotgun used in the 19th and early 20th centuries for shooting large numbers of waterfowl for commercial harvesting operations. These weapons are characteristically too large for an individual to fire from ...

, 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 '' lampworke ...

, a tool used in glassblowing * A punt mark or

pontil mark A pontil mark or punt mark is the scar where the pontil, punty or punt was broken from a work of blown glass. The presence of such a scar indicates that a glass bottle or bowl was blown freehand, while the absence of a punt mark suggests either th ...

, left by the glassblowing tool *

Punt (wine bottle) A wine bottle is a bottle, generally a glass bottle, that is used for holding wine. Some wines are fermented in the bottle while others are bottled only after fermentation. Recently the bottle has become a standard unit of volume to describe sal ...

, the indented bottom of a wine bottle * Punt, a colloquial term in British English for bet or wager in

gambling Gambling (also known as betting or gaming) is the wagering of something of value ("the stakes") on a random event with the intent of winning something else of value, where instances of strategy are discounted. Gambling thus requires three el ...

* 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 ...

, a former political party in Equatorial Guinea

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