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Blue Jay batter's ploy
Answer for the clue "Blue Jay batter's ploy ", 4 letters:
bunt
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1767, "a push;" see bunt (v.). Baseball sense is from 1889.
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
verb EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Democratic columnist Mark Shields offers the same description but with crepe bunting. ▪ First pitch of the split-squad game with the Giants: a Marvin Benard bunt that Brosius charged hard. ▪ Hotels were draped with patriotic ...
Usage examples of bunt.
This air is enhanced by the presence of five aspidistras, placed in a row on the top of the bunting, which has been stretched across the top, over the opening and the turned-back lid, tightly fixed to the edges with drawing pins, and allowed to fall in artistic festoons down the sides and in a sort of valance-like effect across the front.
When the chauffeur had gone, Georgie re-pinned the bunting over the open top of the piano, replaced the aspidistras and decamped.
It was a funny, rather smelly little place, and she hurried as much as she could, the more so that the foreigner who served her insisted on telling her some of the strange, peculiar details of this Avenger murder which had taken place forty-eight hours before, and in which Bunting took such a morbid interest.
When Bunting began to ask Joe Chandler about the last of those awful Avenger murders, she even listened with a certain languid interest to all he had to say.
Bunting always visioned The Avenger as a black shadow in the centre a bright blinding light--but the shadow had no form or definite substance.
Bunting now remembered, had given a most circumstantial account of what The Avenger looked like, for he, it was supposed, had actually brushed by her as he passed.
Bunting thought he ought to have been to occupy so important a position on so important a day--gave a little history, as it were, of the terrible and mysterious Avenger crimes.
Bunting realised that this was the woman who claimed to have seen The Avenger from her bedroom window.
Bunting was now mortally afraid of this discussion concerning The Avenger and his doings, they heard Mrs.
On the first pitch, as Dreer got a fast start for second, Hollis bunted down the first-base line.
Every varsity man bunted, but in just the place where it was not expected.
Raymond, also left-handed, came next, and, letting two balls go, he bunted the third.
The Wayne team batted and bunted a few balls, and then Homans led them to the bench.
But as the watchers choked in agony of suspense Weir bunted the ball, and Reddy Ray flashed across the plate with the winning run.
One time Adam Piatt, the spare outfielder, had gone up to the plate in a tight game with a runner on first base with one out, and bunted the guy over.