Bunkerage
the act of bunkering a vessel.
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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, […]
- Bunkie
bunkmate. Contemporary Examples AbleNook designers offer alternative to disaster-relief tents and trailers Nina Strochlic August 17, 2013 The Woman Who Saved Solomon Guy Walters October 19, 2013 The Woman Who Saved Solomon Guy Walters October 19, 2013 Historical Examples Tutors’ Lane Wilmarth Lewis Uncle Sam’s Boys as Sergeants H. Irving Hancock Ten years in the […]
- Bunking
a built-in platform bed, as on a ship. Informal. any bed. a cabin used for sleeping quarters, as in a summer camp; bunkhouse. a trough for feeding cattle. Informal. to occupy a bunk or any sleeping quarters: Joe and Bill bunked together at camp. to provide with a place to sleep. to bump. to absent […]
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a swindler, especially a person who lures another to a gambling game to be cheated.
- Bunkum
insincere speechmaking by a politician intended merely to please local constituents. insincere talk; claptrap; humbug. Historical Examples The Attache Thomas Chandler Haliburton The Hero William Somerset Maugham The Sorcery Club Elliott O’Donnell Egyptian Birds Charles Whymper The Puddleford Papers, H. H. Riley The Attache Thomas Chandler Haliburton Beauchamp’s Career, Complete George Meredith Command William McFee […]