dunt

Meanings

Noun

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

Verb

• To strike; give a blow to; knock.

Origin

• 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-Germanic *duntiz ("shock, blow"), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰen- ("to beat, push"). Cognate with Swedish dialectal dunt.