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Bunk   /bəŋk/   Listen
noun
Bunk  n.  
1.
A wooden case or box, which serves for a seat in the daytime and for a bed at night. (U.S.)
2.
One of a series of berths or bed places in tiers; as, to sleep in the top bunk.
3.
A piece of wood placed on a lumberman's sled to sustain the end of heavy timbers. (Local, U.S.)
4.
A bed. (informal)



verb
Bunk  v. i.  (past & past part. bunked; pres. part. bunking)  To go to bed in a bunk; sometimes with in. (Colloq. U.S.)






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"Bunk" Quotes from Famous Books



... full-back of the Bannister College football squad, his behemoth bulk swathed in heavy blankets and crowded into a narrow bunk, shifted his vast tonnage restlessly. He was dreaming of the wild and woolly West, and like a six-reel Western drama thrown on the screen in a moving-picture show, he visioned in his slumbers ...
— T. Haviland Hicks Senior • J. Raymond Elderdice

... not to bunk right into him," she conceded. "We'll dig very slowly when we get pretty near there. Come on, ...
— Cricket at the Seashore • Elizabeth Westyn Timlow

... Hays, when he finished his supper, "you can have a bunk. Yes, lieutenant, you must take it. I could put you ashore to-night, but it's not worth while. Get a good night's sleep, and ...
— The Rock of Chickamauga • Joseph A. Altsheler

... and stumbling over numerous dogs that blocked the way, and at the farther end bumped into a door. Upon pushing this open I found myself in a room perhaps twelve by fourteen feet in size. Three stone lamps shed a gloomy half light over the place, and revealed a low bunk, covered with sealskins, extending along two sides of the room, upon which nine Eskimos—men, women and children—were lying. A half inch of soft slush covered the floor. The whole place was reeking in filth, infested with vermin, and ...
— The Long Labrador Trail • Dillon Wallace

... into two apartments, a kitchen, which also served for a store-room, dining-room, and sitting-room; the other was the chamber, or rather bunk-room, where the family slept. Five children came tumbling out from this latter apartment as the traveler entered, and greeted him with a stare of childlike curiosity. The woman asked them to be seated on blocks of wood, which served for chairs, and soon threw off her reserve and told them her ...
— Woman on the American Frontier • William Worthington Fowler


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