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
Bunkered in a gated community, away from friends and foes alike, John Edwards lives a lonely life.
Th' prisident was first off th' tee with an excellent three while his opponent was almost hopelessly bunkered in a camera.
Mr. Dooley Says | Finley DunneNevertheless he accomplished it perfectly and never once bunkered us by the way.
Fifty Years of Golf | Horace G. HutchinsonI happened to be bunkered at the fourteenth, and took my niblick to get out, but lost the hole.
The Complete Golfer [1905] | Harry VardonBut poor Willy on that occasion got heavily bunkered; lost his head a little and perhaps his temper more than a little.
Fifty Years of Golf | Horace G. Hutchinson
At the short fourteenth Vardon was bunkered, and took an hour.
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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