verb

• (finance) To sell (assets) under the terms of a put option.
  "He got out of his Procter and Gamble bet by putting his shares at 80."
• (especially athletics) To throw with a pushing motion, especially in reference to the sport of shot put. (Do not confuse with putt.)
  "He put the shot out beyond the 20-metre mark."
• (obsolete) To lay down; to give up; to surrender.
  "No man hath more love than this, that a man put his life for his friends."
• (obsolete) To incite; to entice; to urge; to constrain; to oblige.
  "These wretches put us upon all mischief."

noun

• (business) A right to sell something at a predetermined price.
• (finance) Short for put option.
  "He bought a January '08 put for Procter and Gamble at 80 to hedge his bet."
• (uncountable) An old card game.
  "Among the in-door amusements of the costermonger is card-playing, at which many of them are adepts. The usual games are all-fours, all-fives, cribbage, and put."

noun

• (obsolete) A fellow, especially an eccentric or elderly one; a duffer.
  "Queer Country-puts extol Queen Bess's reign, And of lost hospitality complain."

noun

• (obsolete) A prostitute.
  "And Mrs. Penny-a-hoist Pim, said Mr. Gorman. That old put, said Mr. Nolan."