bunker
Americannoun
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a large bin or receptacle; a fixed chest or box.
a coal bunker.
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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.
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Golf. any obstacle, as a sand trap or mound of dirt, constituting a hazard.
verb (used with object)
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Nautical.
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to provide fuel for (a vessel).
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to convey (bulk cargo, except grain) from a vessel to an adjacent storehouse.
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Golf. to hit (a ball) into a bunker.
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to equip with or as if with bunkers.
to bunker an army's defenses.
noun
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a large storage container or tank, as for coal
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Also called (esp US and Canadian): sand trap. an obstacle on a golf course, usually a sand-filled hollow bordered by a ridge
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an underground shelter, often of reinforced concrete and with a bank and embrasures for guns above ground
verb
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(tr) golf
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to drive (the ball) into a bunker
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(passive) to have one's ball trapped in a bunker
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(tr) nautical
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to fuel (a ship)
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to transfer (cargo) from a ship to a storehouse
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Etymology
Origin of bunker
First recorded in 1750–60; earlier bonkar ( Scots ) “box, chest, serving also as a seat,” of obscure origin
Example Sentences
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An AFP team of journalists met Haftan and his fellow fighters in a bunker carved into a rugged mountainous area, now blanketed with snow, near the border with Iran.
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"Visitors to Germany can't really imagine what war is like -- we want to show it to them," said Giebel, standing in front of the huge entrance to the bunker, built in 1943.
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His third bogey of the day, from a greenside bunker at the par-three 16th, saw his lead reduced to one.
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He got up and down from a greenside bunker for birdie at 17, and even after the long day wasn't feeling tired.
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For the first two years of the war, he lived in a bunker inside the heavily guarded presidential quarter of Kyiv.
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