9  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Punt  \Punt\,  v.  i. 
  1.  To  boat  or  hunt  in  a  punt. 
 
  2.  To  punt  a  football. 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Punt  \Punt\,  n.  (Football) 
  The  act  of  punting  the  ball. 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Punt  \Punt\,  v.  i.  [F.  ponter,  or  It  puntare  fr  L.  punctum 
  point.  See  {Point}.] 
  To  play  at  basset,  baccara,  faro.  or  omber;  to  gamble. 
 
  She  heard  .  .  .  of  his  punting  at  gaming  tables. 
  --Thackeray. 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Punt  \Punt\,  n. 
  Act  of  playing  at  basset,  baccara,  faro,  etc 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Punt  \Punt\,  n.  [AS.,  fr  L.  ponto  punt,  pontoon.  See 
  {Pontoon}.]  (Naut.) 
  A  flat-bottomed  boat  with  square  ends  It  is  adapted  for  use 
  in  shallow  waters. 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Punt  \Punt\,  v.  t. 
  1.  To  propel,  as  a  boat  in  shallow  water,  by  pushing  with  a 
  pole  against  the  bottom;  to  push  or  propel  anything  with 
  exertion.  --Livingstone. 
 
  2.  (Football)  To  kick  (the  ball)  before  it  touches  the 
  ground,  when  let  fall  from  the  hands. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  punt 
  n  1:  the  basic  unit  of  money  in  Ireland;  equal  to  100  pence  [syn: 
  {Irish  pound},  {pound}] 
  2:  an  open  flat-bottomed  boat  used  in  shallow  waters  and 
  propelled  by  a  long  pole 
  3:  kicking  in  which  the  football  is  dropped  from  the  hands  and 
  kicked  before  it  touches  the  ground  [syn:  {punting}] 
  v  1:  kick  the  ball;  in  certain  kinds  of  sports 
  2:  propel  with  a  pole;  of  barges  on  rivers,  for  example  [syn:  {pole}] 
  3:  place  a  bet  on  "Which  horse  are  you  backing?"  "I'm  betting 
  on  the  new  horse"  [syn:  {bet  on},  {back},  {gage},  {stake}, 
  {game}] 
 
  From  Jargon  File  (4.2.3,  23  NOV  2000)  [jargon]: 
 
  punt  v.  [from  the  punch  line  of  an  old  joke  referring  to 
  American  football:  "Drop  back  15  yards  and  punt!"]  1.  To  give  up 
  typically  without  any  intention  of  retrying.  "Let's  punt  the  movie 
  tonight."  "I  was  going  to  hack  all  night  to  get  this  feature  in  but  I 
  decided  to  punt"  may  mean  that  you've  decided  not  to  stay  up  all  night, 
  and  may  also  mean  you're  not  ever  even  going  to  put  in  the  feature. 
  2.  More  specifically,  to  give  up  on  figuring  out  what  the  {Right  Thing} 
  is  and  resort  to  an  inefficient  hack.  3.  A  design  decision  to  defer 
  solving  a  problem,  typically  because  one  cannot  define  what  is  desirable 
  sufficiently  well  to  frame  an  algorithmic  solution.  "No  way  to  know 
  what  the  right  form  to  dump  the  graph  in  is  --  we'll  punt  that  for  now." 
  4.  To  hand  a  tricky  implementation  problem  off  to  some  other  section  of 
  the  design.  "It's  too  hard  to  get  the  compiler  to  do  that  let's  punt 
  to  the  runtime  system."  5.  To  knock  someone  off  an  Internet  or  chat 
  connection;  a  `punter'  thus  is  a  person  or  program  that  does  this 
 
 
 
  From  The  Free  On-line  Dictionary  of  Computing  (13  Mar  01)  [foldoc]: 
 
  punt 
 
  (From  the  punch  line  of  an  old  joke  referring  to  American 
  football:  "Drop  back  15  yards  and  punt!")  1.  To  give  up 
  typically  without  any  intention  of  retrying.  "Let's  punt  the 
  movie  tonight."  "I  was  going  to  hack  all  night  to  get  this 
  feature  in  but  I  decided  to  punt"  may  mean  that  you've 
  decided  not  to  stay  up  all  night,  and  may  also  mean  you're  not 
  ever  even  going  to  put  in  the  feature. 
 
  2.  More  specifically,  to  give  up  on  figuring  out  what  the 
  {Right  Thing}  is  and  resort  to  an  inefficient  hack. 
 
  3.  A  design  decision  to  defer  solving  a  problem,  typically 
  because  one  cannot  define  what  is  desirable  sufficiently  well 
  to  frame  an  algorithmic  solution.  "No  way  to  know  what  the 
  right  form  to  dump  the  graph  in  is  -  we'll  punt  that  for 
  now." 
 
  4.  To  hand  a  tricky  implementation  problem  off  to  some  other 
  section  of  the  design.  "It's  too  hard  to  get  the  compiler  to 
  do  that  let's  punt  to  the  run-time  system." 
 
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