What is "punting"

Usage examples of "punting".

He was evidently a novice at punting, and his performance was most interesting.

Bodkin, twenty-five years his senior, had actually lived in several of them, both in Europe and America, and spent most of his spare time punting around the remoter water-ways, searching out former libraries and museums.

Bodkin bad become lost in his private reverie, punting aimlessly around the narrow creeks in search for the submerged world of his childhood.

For some time he had noticed Bodkin punting around the creeks of the former university quarter--often the old man, much to his amusement, would be trailed around the narrow canals by one of the dragon-eyed scows, manned by the Admiral or Big Caesar and camouflaged with fern fronds, like a lost carnival float--and attributing his own motives to others, assumed that Bodkin was searching for some long-buried treasure.

I've been punting on tick for weeks past— hardly dare show my face in town!

A run of luck might save him from immediate ruin, but a prolonged run of damnable ill-luck had made it impossible for him to continue punting on tick.