Open flat-bottomed boat

Usage examples of punt.

The first consequence of that vigorous nip was a momentary dance up and down in the punt, accompanied by exclamatory howls from Dick, but not by a word of any sort from the crab.

Much was required of him in a world where a high fantastical acrobatic mountebankery was almost a matter of ceremony, where riders stand on their heads in passing their rivals and cooks punt a casserole over their heads to the wall behind by way of giving notice: much was required of him and he proved worthy.

A masquer dressed in the Venetian style was punting on a single card, going fifty sequins paroli and paix de paroli, in my fashion.

A Creswell scatback was down after a hard hit on the punt return and the ambulance had driven across to get him.

In foundation it consisted of the old ferry punt in which Amanda and Scatty got about in flood time, but its appearance had been considerably changed by a superstructure of light leafy branches and gorse, so that its real character was completely hidden, and while there was sufficient room for four or five people to crouch inside, to the casual observer it resembled nothing so much as a floating bush or a tangle of brushwood which had come adrift from some pile on the bank.

Niet onze sterke maar onze zwakke punten hebben ons in gevaar gebracht, dacht D.

Miss Effie Winters and here, although I can well understand his motive, Superintendent Hallicks allowed me to go into the house and talk to her before he had told me of the result of his excavation of the contents of the punt.

The punt was a very old affair, reduced almost to punk by the decay of the boards of which it was built, or the bow of the cutter would not have gone through it so readily.

The side-boards of the old punt were under water half the time, but the crabs were pretty well penned in.

But still, we did have a misshapen sort of punt of our own, with a lugsail we were hardly strong enough to hoist: it was the most crossgrained brute that ever swam, and although it was so monstrous heavy, it would overset for a nothing.

They wore them, they draped their punts with them, they lived in the midst of them.

Each stood at the center of a platform raised about five ells above the surface, nuzzled on two sides by a number of punts similar to that which had brought her here.

Sure enough, they saw half a dozen punts full of Labornoki scouts prowling about in the waters above Trevista.

The force of twenty auxiliary punts, each bearing a knight-commander, three men-at-arms, and three oarsmen, had milled about the Mire every which way under the orders of their inexperienced captains.

Prince Antar watched his knights and the men-at-arms disembark from the punts and begin to spread out along the skid-road.