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bunker
UK /ˈbʌŋ.kə/ US /ˈbʌŋ.kɚ/
noun 7verb 5name 1
Collocations
5ADJ.
abandoned, deeper, empty, huge, inside, live, old, safe
VERB + BUNKER
back, bought, built, entered, go, ran
BUNKER + NOUN
elias
PREP.
in, into, out
ADV.
almost
Definitions
noun
1
A hardened shelter, often partly buried or fully underground, designed to protect the inhabitants from falling bombs or other attacks.
The military built a bunker to help evacuate the citizens safely from the bombings.
2
A compartment for storing coal for the ship's boilers; or a tank for storing fuel oil for the ship's engines.
3
The coal compartment on a tank engine; it can also refer to that on a tender engine.
Among tank engines, the 0-6-2 wheel arrangement was by far the most numerous, there being nearly 450 of this arrangement, which offers the advantage of good power and adhesive weight, coupled with adequate tank and bunker capacity, within a limited compass.
The bunkers of these engines hold enough coal for one round journey of 120½ miles, and water is taken in each direction at Hexham.
4
Ellipsis of bunker oil (usually plural).
The vessel is taking on bunkers.
5
A hazard on a golf course consisting of a sand-filled hollow.
[Letter X, page 204] At length I came within sight of them, three in number, where they sat cosily niched, into what you might call a bunker, a little sand-pit, dry and snug, and surrounded by its banks, and a screen of whins in full bloom. […] [Letter XI, page 223] And are ye in the wont of drawing up wi' all the gangrel bodies that ye meet on the high road, or find cowering in a sand-bunker upon the links?
verb
1
To load (a vessel) with coal or fuel oil for the engine.
2
To take a load of coal or fuel oil for its engine.
3
To steal bunker fuel by illicitly siphoning it off.
4
To hit (a golf ball) into a bunker; (chiefly passive voice) to place (a golfer) in the position of having a golf ball in a bunker.
5
To hit (a golf ball) into a bunker; (chiefly passive voice) to place (a golfer) in the position of having a golf ball in a bunker.
Proteus. Or we resign and tell the country that we cant carry on the King's Government under conditions which destroy our responsibility. / Balbus. Thatll do it. He couldnt face that. / Crassus. Yes: thatll bunker him.
noun
1
One who bunks off; a truant from school.
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Idioms & Phrases
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The military built a bunker to help evacuate the citizens safely from the bombings.
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Among tank engines, the 0-6-2 wheel arrangement was by far the most numerous, there being nearly 450 of this arrangement, which offers the advantage of good power and adhesive weight, coupled with ade
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The bunkers of these engines hold enough coal for one round journey of 120½ miles, and water is taken in each direction at Hexham.
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Proteus. Or we resign and tell the country that we cant carry on the King's Government under conditions which destroy our responsibility. / Balbus. Thatll do it. He couldnt face that. / Crassus. Yes:
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As troops swarmed the streets below and gun battles continued to rage, I bunkered in a room on the top floor of a building in the middle of the red zone. Redshirt spokesman Sean Boonpracong sought ref
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More than 10,000 people were bunkering in 20 emergency shelters across the disaster zone, not all of them cyclone-rated.
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