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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
Word History and Origins
Origin of bunker1
Word History and Origins
Origin of bunker1
Example Sentences
The 10th hole — a par four — appeared to be a potential bogey after Lindblad left the ball short of the putting green and into a bunker on her second shot.
After his third consecutive riot, Tovar turned to the Olympic Auditorium, the impenetrable concrete bunker in downtown Los Angeles where he’d hosted Black Flag a year before.
The foursome lives at Lee’s home in Seattle, with the women in the main house and the lads in a barn-like bunker in the yard.
Then, just as he did on the first hole, McIlroy wound up with his drive in a fairway bunker on No. 2.
But many are buried deep in underground bunkers.
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