The Clue
Batter's ploy (4 letter answer)
The Answer
BUNT
Tags
Notes
The answer BUNT is uncommon, appearing about once every 525 puzzles.
Related Clues
Baseball maneuver
Baseball ploy
Diamond sacrifice
Minor hit
Option for Rose
Small hit
Surprise hit?
Make a sacrifice, perhaps
Move to advance a runner
Part of a square sail
Part of a squeeze play
Part of a suicide squeeze
Short hit, in baseball
It can be a sacrifice
It may be a sacrifice
It doesn't get far from home
Definition
BUNT as a noun:
1. (baseball) the act of hitting a baseball lightly without swinging the bat
2. (bunt, stinking smut) = disease of wheat characterized by replacement of the grains with greasy masses of smelly smut spores
3. (bunt, stinking smut, Tilletia foetida) = similar to Tilletia caries
4. (bunt, Tilletia caries) = fungus that destroys kernels of wheat by replacing them with greasy masses of smelly spores
BUNT as a verb:
1. (bunt, drag a bunt) = hit a ball in such a way so as to make it go a short distance
2. (butt, bunt) = to strike, thrust or shove against, often with head or horns; "He butted his sister out of the way"