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Boat propeller, of a sort
Answer for the clue "Boat propeller, of a sort ", 6 letters:
punter
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Word definitions for punter in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Punter \Punt"er\, n. One who punts a football; also, one who propels a punt.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. someone who propels a boat with a pole (football) a person who kicks the football by dropping it from the hands and contacting it with the foot before it hits the ground someone who bets [syn: bettor , better , wagerer ]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1888 in football, agent noun from punt (v.).
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADJECTIVE average ▪ Here, Christie's tightly produced specialist sales are aimed at the discerning buyer to the exclusion of the average punter . ▪ In fact, there's so much bonding on stage that it would make the average ...
Usage examples of punter.
The Irish are all around here and these merry punters pours out of their shacks to join the Sydney and Parramatta Town throng.
He and Steyn eased past some of the punters to get closer to the table.
Advice on how to deal with extreme emotional stress from stroppy punters.
Madame fainted away, the punters hurried out, and I followed their example, as soon as I had secured one-half of the gold which was on the table.
BBS and the delta, slides away from it as the data slows around her, using her own separate momentum to carry her a little further into the swirling light, the bright icons of the advertisers and the punters and the users blending into a single shifting layer like the flow of a visible wind.
Out there, stitching up the punters, shafting the oppos, getting stuck into the real job.
When Medini thought a sufficient number of punters were present he sat down at a large table, placed five or six hundred crowns in gold and notes before him, and began to deal.
His small bank did not contain more than five or six ducats, and the punters, men and women, were not more than twelve.
I have three hundred sequins myself, but that is not enough because the punters play high.
Besides I was easy and smiling when my bank was losing, and I won without shewing any avidity, and that is a manner which always pleases the punters.
Lights still flickered on the pari-mutuel, changing the odds: races in America tended to start when the punters had finished, not to any rigid clock.
He kept looking from side to side at the punters milling around as though at any moment one of them would point, and laugh, and tell him that this was all a joke, a premature birthday game.
It is to insult one of his punters so much that the victim walks out, but to do it in such a way that the others applaud.
He has to content himself with smoothing his hand across his stomach and distracting himself by paying attention to what the punters are saying.
Keep the punters happy is his motto, gleaned from months of experience of being a guru.