Punt

Punt or punting may refer to:

Boats

• Punt (boat), a flat-bottomed boat with a square-cut bow developed on the River Thames
• Falmouth Quay Punt, a small sailing vessel hired by ships anchored in Falmouth harbour
• Norfolk Punt, a type of racing dinghy developed in Norfolk
• Cable ferry, known as a punt in Australian English

Places

• Land of Punt, a trading partner of Ancient Egypt, considered by many scholars to be in the Horn of Africa
• Puntland, a region in northeastern Somalia, centered on Garowe in the Nugaal province

Sports and recreation

• Punt (gridiron football), a way of kicking a ball in the American or Canadian varieties of football
• Punt (Australian football), a way of kicking a ball in the Australian variety of football
• A type of goalkeeper kick in association football

Other uses

• Punt (surname), a surname
• Punt, Punt Éireannach or Irish pound, pre-euro currency
• El Punt, a Catalan newspaper
• Punt gun, a type of extremely large shotgun, mounted directly on punt boats
• A punt or punty, a tool used in glassblowing
• A punt mark or pontil mark, left by the glassblowing tool
• Punt (wine bottle), the indented bottom of a wine bottle
• Punt, a colloquial term in British English for bet or wager in gambling
• PUNT, the Spanish acronym of the United National Workers' Party, a former political party in Equatorial Guinea

See also

• Punter (disambiguation)
• Pundt