What is "punts"

Usage examples of "punts".

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.

Bereft of their comfortable pavilions and folding beds, which were too large to fit in the punts, the knights had to sleep on the ground as the common soldiers did, covered only by their capes.

Cursing and groaning, the parry had to right the punts and climb into them, then paddle into an adjacent thicket, now also underwater, and tie up there for the rest of the night.

They dozed fitfully beneath their streaming capes as the storm raged on, bailing out the punts as rainwater accumulated.

In moments, soldiers were manhandling the wooden punts out of the stream as fast as they could and piling them up to form an improvised barricade.

Others of the man eaters set about to gather dry driftwood from along the creek, which they made into a great stack, together with the Labornoki punts, and prepared to set it alight.

Meanwhile, you must gather up what weapons and supplies you can, and remove your punts from the bonfire stack.

Now he fended off the two wooden punts with the knights in them, so that the three craft drifted quickly apart in the wind.

Nyssomu met them with a hundred punts, and greeted Princess Anigel with much deference.

The fleet of Nyssomu punts carried the entire host safely past Castle Manoparo, to the confluence of the Skrokar and the Mutar.

There were many other small boats on the Thames, mostly hired punts and skiffs like their own, but one or two under sail, trying to catch the brief wind.