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dunt

The English word “dunt” has 3 meanings listed here.

noun

  1. A stroke; a dull-sounding blow.
  2. The disease gid or sturdy in sheep.

verb

  1. To strike; give a blow to; knock.

Etymology

From Middle English dunt, dynt, from Old English dynt (“dint, blow, strike, stroke, bruise, stripe, thud, the mark or noise of a blow, a bruise, noise, crash”), from Proto-West Germanic *dunti, from Proto-Germanic *duntiz (“shock, blow”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰen- (“to beat, push”). Cognate with Swedish dialectal dunt (“stroke”). Doublet of dent and dint.

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