title: Punt
text: # 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 north-eastern 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 goal 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
  