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i. [F. ponter, punt (at cards), Another is for setting up an a embly for ba et, where none shall be admitted to punt that have not taken the oaths. Add is on, Freeholder, No. 8. Wretch that I was! how often have I swore, When Winnall tally'd, I would punt no more! Pope , The Ba et Table. He was tired of hawking, and fishing, and hunting, Of billiards, short-whist, chicken-hazard, and punting . Barham , In golds by Legends, II. 252.