Bunk

Word BUNK
Character 4
Hyphenation bunk
Pronunciations /bʌŋk/

Definitions and meanings of "Bunk"

What do we mean by bunk?

A narrow bed built like a shelf into or against a wall. noun

A bunk bed. noun

A place for sleeping. noun

To sleep in a bunk or bed. intransitive verb

To stay the night; sleep. intransitive verb

To go to bed. intransitive verb

To provide with sleeping quarters. intransitive verb

Empty talk; nonsense. noun

To place upon the bunks: as, to bunk a log.

To make off; run away; decamp.

To occupy a bunk; hence, to occupy a bed; sleep: as, the two boys bunked together.

The cross-beam on which the logs rest on a log-car or truck. noun

A log-car or truck. noun

A wooden case or compartment in a vessel, a sleeping-car, etc., and sometimes in a dwelling-house, used as a sleeping-berth. noun

A piece of timber placed across a sled to sustain a heavy weight. noun

A wooden case or box, which serves for a seat in the daytime and for a bed at night. noun

One of a series of berths or bed places in tiers. noun

A piece of wood placed on a lumberman's sled to sustain the end of heavy timbers. noun

A bed. noun

One of a series of berths or beds placed in tiers.

A built-in bed on board ship, often erected in tiers one above the other.

A cot.

A wooden case or box, which serves for a seat in the daytime and for a bed at night.

A piece of wood placed on a lumberman's sled to sustain the end of heavy timbers.

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The word "bunk" in example sentences

There's no reason why a Roman barracks should have been any different from an 18th-century European one, with entire families crammed into the neat rooms, with bunks curtained off, and the young couple in the corner on the top bunk making babies while the woman in the bottom bunk is giving birth to her fourth, and the children scamper under foot, or making themselves useful polishing kit. ❋ Zornhau (2009)

It's cozy — after all, it is a rail car — with a family caboose featuring a double bed and twin bunk beds. ❋ Jennifer Merritt (2010)

Graduates from top universities working at white collar jobs often live five or six to an apartment, in bunk beds. ❋ Shaun Rein (2010)

And while one of my Wonk Room colleagues calls the idea “plain bunk” because he is a “poor blogger,” my other colleague Matt Yglesias is a long-time booze tax enthusiast: ❋ Unknown (2009)

You see I am stiff and trail-sore, and this bunk is so restful. ❋ Unknown (2010)

All this government bunk is pure smoke and mirrors. ❋ Unknown (2009)

I clambered aboard and, after a brief confusion over seating assignments, settled with my three cabinmates into a tight little space with twin bunk beds along both walls and a table in the middle. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Inside hunters would be stacked like cord wood in bunk beds …. fire place shop on April 3rd, 2008 ❋ Unknown (2006)

Michael has a detailed debunking of the bunk from the blatherers. ❋ Unknown (2004)

This manoeuver had turned French Pete's bunk from the lee to the weather side, and rolled him out on the cabin floor, where he lay in a drunken stupor. ❋ Unknown (1902)

This manœuver had turned Pete's bunk from the lee to the weather side, and rolled him out on the cabin floor, where he lay in ❋ Unknown (1902)

I mean these awesome flatfoots managed to hold their rifles, eat some fruit pies AND catch the Joker (possibly with other limbs that weren't featured), all without seeming menacing, so I call bunk on you Spielberg. ❋ Unknown (2010)

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