pig-nut, or earth-nut. See Botany Index.

BUNT of a Sail, the middle part of it, formed designedly into a bag or cavity, that the sail may gather more wind. It is used mostly in top-sails, because the courses are generally cut square, or with but small allowance for bunt or compass. The bunt holds much leeward wind; that is, it hangs much to leeward.

Bunt-Lines, are small lines made fast to the bottom of the sails, in the middle part of the bolt rope, to a cringle, and are so reeved through a small block, leized to the yard. Their use is to trice up the bunt of the sail, for the better furling it up.