bunker
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.
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.
Origin of bunker
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How to use bunker in a sentence
They’d given up on the greater good and retreated to their own bunkers, leaving the rest of us to burn.
The Climate Crisis Is Worse Than You Can Imagine. Here’s What Happens If You Try. | by Elizabeth Weil | January 25, 2021 | ProPublicaFor example, advanced bio-fuels cost 600% more than the bunker fuel that cargo ships run on.
Bill Gates: Here's a Formula That Explains Where We Need to Invest in Climate Innovation | Bill Gates | January 22, 2021 | TimeHe’ll get a bunker dug out beneath Mar-a-Lago, and he’ll be hurried down there by tight-lipped men in suits every time there’s a thunderstorm.
Gene Weingarten: It ain’t over until the fat man sings | Gene Weingarten | January 14, 2021 | Washington PostLawmakers barricaded themselves inside offices, bunkers and laid on the floors of the House and Senate.
This Time, Impeachment Seems to Be a No-Brainer for Democrats | Philip Elliott | January 12, 2021 | TimeThe unmarked offices sprinkled around the building where backroom deals are typically made became makeshift bunkers.
Whatever the reason, Burton was committed enough to leave tiny bunker Hill to seek out her beau.
bunker, along with his brothers Herbert and Lamar, started buying silver in 1970, when it was $1.94 an ounce.
Nelson bunker Hunt, who died this week, made and lost billions of dollars.
You feel like you need to bunker up, hide away, and arm yourself.
David Oyelowo on Playing Martin Luther King Jr., Ebola Fears, and Race in Hollywood | Marlow Stern | October 15, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThe bunker, so crucial during the final years of the Cold War in the Baltic, was only declassified in 2003.
The Secret Soviet Power Bunker—in Latvia, a Hiding Place for the Elite | Brandon Presser | September 25, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTCorner stone of bunker hill monument laid with great and enthusiastic ceremonies; Lafayette being present.
The Every Day Book of History and Chronology | Joel MunsellWell, we couldn't even think bunker Hill but what she'd pipe up about the Alamo.
The Sunbridge Girls at Six Star Ranch | Eleanor H. (Eleanor Hodgman) PorterThe door in this bunker had been dropped probably when water was first discovered, which was a few minutes after the collision.
Loss of the Steamship 'Titanic' | British GovernmentThere was another water-tight door at the after end of the water-tight passage through the bunker immediately aft of D bulkhead.
Loss of the Steamship 'Titanic' | British GovernmentHolding the transmitter tightly Hendricks called the code of the command bunker.
Second Variety | Philip Kindred Dick
British Dictionary definitions for bunker
/ (ˈbʌŋkə) /
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
(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
Origin of bunker
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