Brunt

1. v. t. The force of a blow; shock; collision.
2. v. t. The heat, or utmost violence, of an onset; the strength or greatest fury of any contention; as, the brunt of a battle.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.