punt
31Punt — /poont/, n. an ancient Egyptian name of an area not absolutely identified but believed to be Somaliland. * * * In ancient Egyptian and Greek geography, the southern coast of the Red Sea and adjacent coasts of the Gulf of Aden, corresponding to… …
32punt — punt1 [ pʌnt ] noun 1. ) count the action of dropping a ball from your hands, and kicking it in the air, especially in the game of football 2. ) count the unit of money used in the Republic of Ireland 3. ) count a long flat boat with square ends… …
33Punt — A unit of currency used in the Republic of Ireland until 2002. The punt was introduced in 1928 and was pegged (one for one) to the British pound sterling. In 1979, the peg was removed and the punt, now called the Irish pound, floated against the… …
34punt — English has three separate words punt. The oldest is punt ‘flat bottomed boat’ [15], which comes via Middle Low German punte or punto from Latin pontō, a term for a sort of Gaulish boat which also produced English pontoon. Punt ‘bet’ [18] (better …
35punt — {{11}}punt (1) kick, 1845 (n. and v.), first in a Rugby list of football rules, perhaps from dialectal punt to push, strike, alteration of Midlands dialect bunt to push, butt with the head, of unknown origin, perhaps echoic. Student slang meaning …
36punt — 1 noun 1 (C) a long narrow river boat with a flat bottom and square ends, that is moved by pushing a long pole against the bottom of the river 2 (singular) the act of going out in a punt: Let s go for a punt. 3 (C) in American football, a long… …
37punt — English has three separate words punt. The oldest is punt ‘flat bottomed boat’ [15], which comes via Middle Low German punte or punto from Latin pontō, a term for a sort of Gaulish boat which also produced English pontoon. Punt ‘bet’ [18] (better …
38punt — I. noun Etymology: Middle English *punt, from Old English, from Latin ponton , ponto Date: before 12th century a long narrow flat bottomed boat with square ends usually propelled with a pole II. transitive verb Date: 1816 to propel (as a punt)… …
39Punt 2 — Infobox TV channel name = Punt 2 logofile = Punt2 logo.png logosize = 100px launch = 9 October, 1997 owner = Televisió Valenciana country = flagcountry|Spain sister names = Canal 9, TVVi headquarters = Burjassot web = http://www.rtvv.es terr serv …
40Punt — Pụnt, in ägyptischen Inschriften häufig genanntes Land in Afrika, genaue Lage unbekannt, wohl an der Küste von Ostsudan. Seit dem 3. Jahrtausend v. Chr. unternahmen die Ägypter Handelsfahrten nach Punt, um Weihrauch, Harze, Edelhölzer,… …
