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单词 bunker hill
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Bunker Hill

[ buhng-ker ]
/ ˈbʌŋ kər /

noun

a hill in Charlestown, Mass.: the first major battle of the American Revolution, known as the Battle of Bunker Hill, was fought on adjoining Breed's Hill on June 17, 1775.

Words nearby Bunker Hill

bunk bed, bunker, bunkerage, Bunker, Archie, bunker buster, Bunker Hill, Bunker Hill, Battle of, bunker oil, bunkhouse, bunkie, bunkmate
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Example sentences from the Web for Bunker Hill

  • Bunker-hill monument was then being built, and built of Quincy granite.

    'Puffing Billy' and the Prize 'Rocket'|Helen Cross Knight
  • You might as well try to squeeze ile out o' Bunker-Hill monument, as to c'lect a debt o' him.

    The Knickerbocker, Vol. 22, No. 5, November 1843|Various
  • Does the Bunker-Hill Monument bend in the blast like a blade of grass?

    The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table|Oliver Wendell Holmes
  • You can buy treatises to show that Napoleon never lived, and that no battle of Bunker-hill was ever fought.

    The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table|Oliver Wendell Holmes

British Dictionary definitions for Bunker Hill

Bunker Hill

noun

the first battle of the American Revolution, actually fought on Breed's Hill, next to Bunker Hill, near Boston, on June 17, 1775. Though defeated, the colonists proved that they could stand against British regular soldiers
Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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