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bunker
[ buhng-ker ]
noun
- a large bin or receptacle; a fixed chest or box:
a coal bunker.
- a fortification set mostly below the surface of the ground with overhead protection provided by logs and earth or by concrete and fitted with openings through which guns may be fired.
- Golf. any obstacle, as a sand trap or mound of dirt, constituting a hazard.
verb (used with object)
- Nautical.
- to provide fuel for (a vessel).
- to convey ( bulk cargo, except grain) from a vessel to an adjacent storehouse.
- Golf. to hit (a ball) into a bunker.
- to equip with or as if with bunkers:
to bunker an army's defenses.
bunker
/ ˈʌŋə /
noun
- a large storage container or tank, as for coal
- Also called (esp US and Canadian)sand trap an obstacle on a golf course, usually a sand-filled hollow bordered by a ridge
- an underground shelter, often of reinforced concrete and with a bank and embrasures for guns above ground
verb
- tr golf
- to drive (the ball) into a bunker
- passive to have one's ball trapped in a bunker
- tr nautical
- to fuel (a ship)
- to transfer (cargo) from a ship to a storehouse
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of bunker1
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of bunker1
Example Sentences
They were housed in a small nuclear fallout bunker, designed to gather data in the event of an attack.
Some of Mr Everett's remains were first discovered by a member of the public in an abandoned bunker at a nature reserve in Salford in April last year.
Estonia, for example, is introducing a new law that makes it mandatory for all new office and apartment blocks of a certain size to include bunkers or bomb shelters.
The third consideration for authorities will be whether the fuel used to run both ships - the bunker fuel - has also leaked out.
Back in November, Germany's interior ministry said it was drawing up a list of bunkers that could provide emergency shelter for civilians.
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