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 topsails, 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-Liner, 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, seized to the yard. Their use is to trice up the bunt of the sail, for the better furling it up.