punt

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   (football) a kick in which the football is dropped from the hands and kicked before it touches the ground

   The punt traveled 50 yards.

From Old English punt, from Latin pontō (“Gaulish flat-bottomed boat, pontoon”), from pons (“bridge”); readopted from Middle Low German punte (“ferry boat”) or Middle Dutch ponte (“ferry boat”) of the same origin.

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