Māori bunk

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noun

NZ a raised sleeping platform

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Words nearby Māori bunk

maomao, Maori, Māori Battalion, Māori bread, Māori bug, Māori bunk, Māori hen, Māoriland, Māorilander, Māori mint, Māori oven

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How to use Māori bunk in a sentence

Half of it is taken up by the bunk beds and improvised benches.
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Barba offered me a line of cocaine as we sat on his bunk bed covered by posters of musicians and half-naked women.
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The Haka, a traditional Maori dance, is best known as the pregame ritual of the New Zealand All Blacks rugby team.
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At the prefab dorms on the American base in Kandahar, I ran into my neighbor from the bunk next door.
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We spent our days and nights with the kids at the center, sleeping on bunk beds with thin mattresses.
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I remember waking up one night and looking out of my bunk to see him standing on the floor.
Uncanny Tales|Various
The first man my eyes lighted upon as I stepped inside was MacRae, humped disconsolately on the edge of a bunk.
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Thereafter he went into a contemplative frame of mind to the docks, and found Sam Blake as usual in his bunk.
The Garret and the Garden|R.M. Ballantyne
(For the purpose of these figures "Maori" means of the half-blood or more).
Report of the Special Committee on Moral Delinquency in Children and Adolescents|Oswald Chettle Mazengarb et al.
During this same period there were 1,433 non-Maori offenders, or 72 per cent of those delinquents.
Report of the Special Committee on Moral Delinquency in Children and Adolescents|Oswald Chettle Mazengarb et al.