bunker

noun · verbA2

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noun

Plural noun:

bunkers

1.
(military) 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.
(nautical) A compartment for storing coal for the ship's boilers; or a tank for storing fuel oil for the ship's engines.
3.
(rail transport) The coal compartment on a tank engine; it can also refer to that on a tender engine.
4.
(abbreviation, alt of, ellipsis)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.
6.
An obstacle used to block an opposing player's view and field of fire.
7.
(British, historical)(British, chiefly historical) A large bin or container for storing coal, often built outdoors in the yard of a house.
There used to be a coal bunker at the back of the house - it was demolished years ago.
8.
(Scotland)A sort of box or chest, as in a window, the lid of which serves as a seat.
9.
(Scotland, slang)A kitchen worktop.
10.
(British, India, slang)One who bunks off; a truant from school.
11.
(US, regional)The menhaden, any of several species of fish in the genera Brevoortia and Ethmidium.

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verb

V_es/s

bunkers

V_ing/Gerund

bunkering

V_ed/pp

bunkered

1.
(transitive)To load (a vessel) with coal or fuel oil for the engine.
2.
(intransitive)To take a load of coal or fuel oil for its engine.
3.
(Nigeria, transitive)To steal bunker fuel by illicitly siphoning it off.
4.
(transitive)(transitive, golf) 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.
(transitive)(transitive, paintball) To fire constantly at (an opponent hiding behind an obstacle), trapping them and preventing them from firing at other players; also, to eliminate (an opponent behind an obstacle) by rushing to the position and firing at extremely close range as the player becomes exposed.
6.
(intransitive)Often followed by down: to take shelter in a bunker or other place.

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ine-pro The origin of the noun is; the earliest sense is sense 7.1 (“box or chest, the lid of which serves as a seat”), from bunker, from bunker, bunkur, bonker (a chest or box, often serving as a seat), probably from Old Norse bunki (a heap) (probably whence bunk (sleeping berth in a ship, train, etc.)), from Proto-Germanic *bunkô (a heap, pile;