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Punter   /pˈəntər/   Listen
Punter

noun
1.
Someone who propels a boat with a pole.
2.
(football) a person who kicks the football by dropping it from the hands and contacting it with the foot before it hits the ground.
3.
Someone who bets.  Synonyms: better, bettor, wagerer.





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"Punter" Quotes from Famous Books



... ball after it had come pretty smartly from my right toe, and dropping it on the ground before him, kick it as it rose, bounding away over the heads of the Conquerors' forwards as they besieged the goal like a hive of bees on a June morning. He had decidedly the advantage over the modern "punter," inasmuch that the leather was always sure to go higher out of reach when the place of defence was besieged, and farther out of the way of lurking backs and half-backs, who, as a matter of course, ...
— Scottish Football Reminiscences and Sketches • David Drummond Bone
... scoring three hundred and seventy-five runs off his own bat in the first innings. This was a great boost for cricket, and it has been popular in England ever since. He was fullback on the Pyramids eleven, and was famous in his day as a punter. He kicked as many goals for his side as ever Cadwalader did when "Cad" was Yale's great centre rush. It was Setee's custom, of a Sunday morning after church was out, to take his pole and vault the Sphinx, just to astonish the Arabs on their native ...
— A Fantasy of Mediterranean Travel • S. G. Bayne


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