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bun⋅ker

  [buhng-ker]
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–noun
1. a large bin or receptacle; a fixed chest or box: a coal bunker.
2. 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.
3. Golf. any obstacle, as a sand trap or mound of dirt, constituting a hazard.
–verb (used with object)
4. Nautical.
a. to provide fuel for (a vessel).
b. to convey (bulk cargo except grain) from a vessel to an adjacent storehouse.
5. Golf. to hit (a ball) into a bunker.
6. to equip with or as if with bunkers: to bunker an army's defenses.
Origin:
1750–60; earlier bonkar (Scots) box, chest, serving also as a seat, of obscure orig.
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bun·ker   (bŭng'kər)   
n.  

    1. A bin or tank especially for fuel storage, as on a ship.

    2. Fuel, such as coal or fuel oil, used especially in ships. Often used in the plural.

  2. An underground fortification, often with a concrete projection above ground level for observation or gun emplacements.

  3. Sports A sand trap serving as an obstacle on a golf course.

tr.v.   bun·kered, bun·ker·ing, bun·kers

  1. To store or place (fuel) in a bunker.

  2. Sports To hit (a golf ball) into a bunker.


[Scots bonker, chest, perhaps of Scandinavian origin.]
bun'ker adj.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
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Word Origin & History

bunker 
1758, from Scottish, "seat, bench," possibly a variant of banker "bench" (1677). Of golf courses, first recorded 1824; meaning "dug-out fortification" is probably from World War I. Bunker Hill, in Massachusetts, was land assigned to George Bunker (1634), who came from the vicinity of Bedford, England. The name dates from 1229, as Bonquer, and is from O.Fr. bon quer "good heart."
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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