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Definition of bunker in English:

bunker

noun ˈbʌŋkəˈbəŋkər
  • 1A large container or compartment for storing fuel.

    a coal bunker
    Example sentencesExamples
    • They had both suffered a single gunshot wound to the chest and their bodies were found between the side of the house and a fuel bunker.
    • The three stations will have a minimum capacity of 5,000 liters, while the fuel bunker will have a capacity of some 20,000 liters.
    • But then I really liked these collection of Coal Bunkers (though I'm not sure bunkers is the right word).
    • The Gujarat border is marked by two enormous fuel bunkers, one on each side of the highway.
    • The house has a very private west-facing walled back garden which extends to about 100 feet and has a variety of flowering shrubs and plants, a glasshouse and three fuel bunkers.
    • The fuel bunkers built in the early 1980s by Yugoslavians are located on a former Iraqi air base where MiG pilots once trained.
    • It is essentially a 747 jet engine that is bolted down on a stand and requires its own storage bunker of fuel at Napier wharf to supply it.
    • Originally standing higher than the rest of the superstructure, this has now collapsed into the fuel bunkers below.
    • Three vessels have been identified as options to take the fuel bunkers and 7700 ton cargo of gasoil and gasoline from the tanker which ran aground off the Dwesa Nature Reserve last Thursday.
    • When I approached, it flew into a tiny slot in one of the large cement fuel bunkers that we have on base.
    Synonyms
    manger, stall, trough, feeding trough, bin, box, rack, fodder rack
  • 2A reinforced underground shelter, typically for use in wartime.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • The low-flying aircraft is fitted with missiles to destroy tanks, runways and bunkers.
    • He said the photo contained ‘sure signs that the bunkers are storing chemical munitions,’ including a decontamination truck and special security.
    • The army even employed a recoilless rifle designed to fire the same size of projectile as light fieldpieces to engage tanks, enemy bunkers, and lightly armored vehicles.
    • Israeli soldiers in tanks and bunkers are all that separate the Palestinians from the settlers.
    • We know the people who bombed the bunkers had a very interesting coincidence of being affected by that.
    • During the 1798 Rebellion, weapons were stored in secret bunkers and in the 1970's members of the Provisional IRA used Gun Island as a hide out.
    • The nuclear weapons at this facility are stored in bunkers.
    • Shielded devices could also be used in bunkers or tanks, to counteract chemical weapons.
    • Now, the Marines and Iraqi soldiers uncovered this elaborate series of bunkers with large stores of heavy weapons, including rockets and mortars, ammunition and supplies.
    • It claimed that the five bunkers could easily store 150 weapons.
    • Vonnegut was a German prisoner of war in Dresden and in an underground bunker during the bombing.
    • The United States is now considering developing a new generation of nuclear weapons, smart nukes which could be used to bust open bunkers and destroy weapons of mass destruction stockpiled by rogue states.
    • After lunch, both Hitler and Eva Hitler (as she wanted to be called) met his inner circle in the ante-room chamber of the bunker.
    • The spokesman said Pakistani troops destroyed at least four heavily built concrete bunkers and several small bunkers.
    • Major islands in the group remain heavily fortified with most soldiers hiding in underground concrete bunkers that snake for miles underneath the surface.
    • Not fully deployed, but also available are a further 10,000 warheads stored in bunkers around the United States.
    • What makes exploring Berlin's bunkers so fascinating is that they were the bunkers of ordinary citizens, the millions of people who held no political ideology and just got caught in the middle.
    • However, as long as Hitler had not been properly defeated and was still holding out in his bunker in Berlin, these disagreements were mostly successfully contained.
    • Hitler's henchmen were a troglodyte lot, burrowing deep beneath the capital during their 12 years of power to build bunkers and boltholes as refuges from the massive violence they seemed to know would one day engulf them.
    • The Germans resist fiercely from bunkers, but the tanks systematically suppress enemy fire.
  • 3A hollow filled with sand, used as an obstacle on a golf course.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • The green is jealously guarded by numerous bunkers and a little creek that runs along the left side of the fairway before crossing just in front of the putting surface.
    • The new routing will bring back many of Adobe's fairway bunkers, all of which had been left to grow-in with grass, according to Richardson.
    • Parsinen unashamedly drew from the dunes of Cruden Bay, the greens of Royal Dornoch and the legendary humps, hollows and bunkers of the Old Course to fashion a links that is exacting, but fun to play.
    • There are bunkers spread across the fairway on the par 4 10th, filling a wide-open void.
    • And to add further fuel to the fire, the fairway bunkers have been enlarged by 10% and they have added more trees down the left.
    • Other recent projects include wall-to-wall cart paths, and new bunkers and tees.
    • Some players have trouble hitting the sand behind a ball in the bunker because they focus too much on the ball itself.
    • Why are the bunkers in the middle of the rough?
    • You've got three lethal bunkers off the tee and more up by the green for the lay-up.
    • I could see a trough bunker guarding the left side of the fairway, a horrible finishing spot for the more popular draw.
    • Fear can come from a number of sources: a water hazard; a narrow fairway, a tight lie, the first tee, bunkers.
    • You need lots of water for the greens, and a lot of money goes into maintaining all those strategically placed sand bunkers and water bodies.
    • When Monty is on the tee, some guy in a black jump suit and mask tiptoes out and narrows the fairways, shrinks the cups and puts rattlesnakes in the bunkers.
    • Sand bunkers are a growing concern for golf course superintendents, right along with the conditions of greens.
    • On either side, the baked earth is already being formed by shapers into greens and bunkers, and Lewis can barely contain his enthusiasm.
    • The result of this is that the sand is not moved out of the bunker and therefore the ball will stay in the bunker too!
    • You can even bring your husband or boyfriend to caddy for you, provided you still have an Eastern Star caddy on the team to carry the bag and rake the bunkers.
    • A couple of golfers did not fair so well as trees, bunkers, and other obstacles got in their way.
    • The new ‘Caddy’ system, which costs £249, can be clipped to a belt or golf bag and will provide exact read-outs of distances to bunkers, ponds and greens.
    • It has high, wispy grass, deep bunkers and large greens, much like St Andrews.
verbˈbʌŋkəˈbəŋkər
[with object]
  • 1Fill the fuel containers of (a ship); refuel.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Once he bet that while helping bunker a ship in the harbour he could dive and swim to shore.
    • The Chief Engineer was new to the ship and had not previously bunkered the ship.
    • The boat was fully provisioned and bunkered with fuel, food and water as per normal for a fishing trip which might last up to ten days.
  • 2be bunkeredGolf
    (of a player) have one's ball lodged in a bunker.

    he was bunkered at the fifth hole
    Example sentencesExamples
    • He was bunkered in two, came out to nine feet, but missed again.
    • When Goosen was bunkered on the 14th and dropped another shot, the momentum he had found on the front nine had been arrested, and he had slipped from the lead into mere contention.
    • When Murray was bunkered at the short 13th and missed from 6ft, O'Hara was suddenly in command with a three-hole lead.
    • But, while they both parred the 200-yard 13th, Westwood was bunkered once more.
    1. 2.1 Hit (the ball) into a bunker.
      he bunkered his second shot
      Example sentencesExamples
      • They made 5 birdies and an eagle 3 at the 4th hole with the only mistake coming on the 8th hole where they both bunkered their second shots.
      • I bunkered my drive then fluffed my next shot, but then I rolled in a 25-foot putt for a par.
      • It was at the same hole that McGinley bunkered his approach in the BMW PGA Championship final round, the resultant bogey costing him that title.
      • But after birdies at the 13th, 15th and 16th drew him level, Kennedy bunkered his approach to the 18th and missed his par putt from six feet.
      • Now one up with two go, the 35th was halved in par fives, but Bjorn was safely on in two at the last and Curtis bunkered his second.
      • Clarke two-putted the long second for birdie, bunkered his approach to the next and failed to get up and down but took the lead when he sank birdie putts of eight and 20 feet at the fifth and sixth.
      • Knowing he is on the verge of the Claret Jug, Levet sends his tee shot wide right, and then badly bunkers his second.
      • Her rally faltered momentarily when she bunkered her second to lose the 12th to go two down again, but promptly birdied the long fifth with two big hits on to the green and the 14th after an approach shot to within seven feet of the flag.
      • He bunkered his tee shot, exploded out to 10 feet, missed his par putt and then missed a tiddler.
      • Both were in the rough off the tee at the 483-yard par-four 17th, then O'Hern could not make the green and Poulter bunkered his second.
      • She reached the 8th in good order, but bunkered her tee shot.
      • I noted Tebbutt usually gobbled up any chances, but one that got away came at the sixth, where she missed a winning metre-long par putt after Winter bunkered her second.
      • Reid, also playing for position off the tee, was down the middle, but his second was bunkered left of the green, from where he played a great sand save to a foot from the pin.
      • The average golfer can be intimidated when the ball is bunkered.
    2. 2.2British informal Cause difficulties to; hinder the progress of.
      he may find his new sporting pursuits bunkered by activities he hadn't planned on
      Example sentencesExamples
      • I felt this was a story on which I could become bunkered but Golf Club treasurer Kieran Lucas came to my rescue, confirming the win - news of which he had let drop to club members on Thursday.
      • Professional Mark Bradley today claimed that his dream of playing in the Open Championship at Muirfield was bunkered by an administrative error.
      • Nor is it auspicious that he wants to distance himself from the sporting ambitions of Henry McLeish, his predecessor, which bunkered Scotland in the over-hyped 2010 Ryder Cup bid.
  • 3no object Take refuge in a bunker or other shelter.

    his family had bunkered down inside their home
    the former Governor has spent four days bunkered down at Government House
    Example sentencesExamples
    • There is the occasional furtive movement from the militiamen bunkered down inside - watching you watching them.
    • And you can't bunker down in your house for this amount of time.
    • She plans to bunker down in Montreal for a serious stretch of time, reading and thinking and seeing what comes.
    • I can remember bunkering down in the library.
    • At first, we bunkered behind fallen tree trunks and heaved spear-like sticks until a birthday party ended in blood and stitches.
    • I need to bunker down this weekend and get a big chunk done.
    • Experts said it was unlikely he would have left the country, opting instead to try and bunker down and consolidate his position for the winter.
    • It's warm and friendly, but also a home in which an exile could easily bunker down in bitter isolation.
    • The party won massive leads in its segments, while its opponents' supporters bunkered down at home on election day.
    • Unwilling to bunker down, the Australians absorbed some damage and deflected the rest.
    • The Germans were preparing to advance across Russia towards Stalingrad and were already bunkered down on the Normandy coast, staring across at England.
    • The former Governor has spent four days bunkered down at Government House, with the nation's media camped at the gates.
    • Bunker down in your burrow.
    • If you stay home, bunker down and enjoy.
    • One of the great things about the football team - the Canterbury football team - is that they really bunker down under pressure.
    • The White House is hunkered down, if not bunkered down.
    • We were too hammered to run anywhere, so we just bunkered down against the bank and laughed about it.
    • The second half we probably sat back a little bit, but we bunkered in and held them off.
    • He is, of course, well prepared, bunkered down in the Treasury with all his billions.
    • When the time arrives to bunker down, when the insides are under threat from the outsides, here sit I, ears tweaked to the luminescence within.

Origin

Mid 16th century (originally Scots, denoting a seat or bench): perhaps related to bunk1.

Rhymes

hunker, lunker, punkah, spelunker
 
 

Definition of bunker in US English:

bunker

nounˈbəŋkərˈbəNGkər
  • 1A large container or compartment for storing fuel.

    a coal bunker
    Example sentencesExamples
    • It is essentially a 747 jet engine that is bolted down on a stand and requires its own storage bunker of fuel at Napier wharf to supply it.
    • When I approached, it flew into a tiny slot in one of the large cement fuel bunkers that we have on base.
    • The three stations will have a minimum capacity of 5,000 liters, while the fuel bunker will have a capacity of some 20,000 liters.
    • Three vessels have been identified as options to take the fuel bunkers and 7700 ton cargo of gasoil and gasoline from the tanker which ran aground off the Dwesa Nature Reserve last Thursday.
    • Originally standing higher than the rest of the superstructure, this has now collapsed into the fuel bunkers below.
    • The Gujarat border is marked by two enormous fuel bunkers, one on each side of the highway.
    • But then I really liked these collection of Coal Bunkers (though I'm not sure bunkers is the right word).
    • The fuel bunkers built in the early 1980s by Yugoslavians are located on a former Iraqi air base where MiG pilots once trained.
    • The house has a very private west-facing walled back garden which extends to about 100 feet and has a variety of flowering shrubs and plants, a glasshouse and three fuel bunkers.
    • They had both suffered a single gunshot wound to the chest and their bodies were found between the side of the house and a fuel bunker.
    Synonyms
    manger, stall, trough, feeding trough, bin, box, rack, fodder rack
    1. 1.1bunkers Fuel for a ship.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • The bunkers for ships will get used irrespective of price.
      • An 8-in. line also supplies bunkers for ships on the sea islands.
      • In addition, this covers the cost of bunkers, port charges, stevedoring costs and any other costs.
  • 2A reinforced underground shelter, typically for use in wartime.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Shielded devices could also be used in bunkers or tanks, to counteract chemical weapons.
    • We know the people who bombed the bunkers had a very interesting coincidence of being affected by that.
    • Hitler's henchmen were a troglodyte lot, burrowing deep beneath the capital during their 12 years of power to build bunkers and boltholes as refuges from the massive violence they seemed to know would one day engulf them.
    • What makes exploring Berlin's bunkers so fascinating is that they were the bunkers of ordinary citizens, the millions of people who held no political ideology and just got caught in the middle.
    • Not fully deployed, but also available are a further 10,000 warheads stored in bunkers around the United States.
    • The Germans resist fiercely from bunkers, but the tanks systematically suppress enemy fire.
    • It claimed that the five bunkers could easily store 150 weapons.
    • Now, the Marines and Iraqi soldiers uncovered this elaborate series of bunkers with large stores of heavy weapons, including rockets and mortars, ammunition and supplies.
    • After lunch, both Hitler and Eva Hitler (as she wanted to be called) met his inner circle in the ante-room chamber of the bunker.
    • During the 1798 Rebellion, weapons were stored in secret bunkers and in the 1970's members of the Provisional IRA used Gun Island as a hide out.
    • The army even employed a recoilless rifle designed to fire the same size of projectile as light fieldpieces to engage tanks, enemy bunkers, and lightly armored vehicles.
    • He said the photo contained ‘sure signs that the bunkers are storing chemical munitions,’ including a decontamination truck and special security.
    • The nuclear weapons at this facility are stored in bunkers.
    • Major islands in the group remain heavily fortified with most soldiers hiding in underground concrete bunkers that snake for miles underneath the surface.
    • Vonnegut was a German prisoner of war in Dresden and in an underground bunker during the bombing.
    • The United States is now considering developing a new generation of nuclear weapons, smart nukes which could be used to bust open bunkers and destroy weapons of mass destruction stockpiled by rogue states.
    • The low-flying aircraft is fitted with missiles to destroy tanks, runways and bunkers.
    • The spokesman said Pakistani troops destroyed at least four heavily built concrete bunkers and several small bunkers.
    • However, as long as Hitler had not been properly defeated and was still holding out in his bunker in Berlin, these disagreements were mostly successfully contained.
    • Israeli soldiers in tanks and bunkers are all that separate the Palestinians from the settlers.
  • 3A hollow filled with sand, used as an obstacle on a golf course.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • You need lots of water for the greens, and a lot of money goes into maintaining all those strategically placed sand bunkers and water bodies.
    • There are bunkers spread across the fairway on the par 4 10th, filling a wide-open void.
    • You can even bring your husband or boyfriend to caddy for you, provided you still have an Eastern Star caddy on the team to carry the bag and rake the bunkers.
    • A couple of golfers did not fair so well as trees, bunkers, and other obstacles got in their way.
    • Sand bunkers are a growing concern for golf course superintendents, right along with the conditions of greens.
    • Some players have trouble hitting the sand behind a ball in the bunker because they focus too much on the ball itself.
    • Parsinen unashamedly drew from the dunes of Cruden Bay, the greens of Royal Dornoch and the legendary humps, hollows and bunkers of the Old Course to fashion a links that is exacting, but fun to play.
    • Other recent projects include wall-to-wall cart paths, and new bunkers and tees.
    • Fear can come from a number of sources: a water hazard; a narrow fairway, a tight lie, the first tee, bunkers.
    • The green is jealously guarded by numerous bunkers and a little creek that runs along the left side of the fairway before crossing just in front of the putting surface.
    • The new routing will bring back many of Adobe's fairway bunkers, all of which had been left to grow-in with grass, according to Richardson.
    • The result of this is that the sand is not moved out of the bunker and therefore the ball will stay in the bunker too!
    • When Monty is on the tee, some guy in a black jump suit and mask tiptoes out and narrows the fairways, shrinks the cups and puts rattlesnakes in the bunkers.
    • I could see a trough bunker guarding the left side of the fairway, a horrible finishing spot for the more popular draw.
    • On either side, the baked earth is already being formed by shapers into greens and bunkers, and Lewis can barely contain his enthusiasm.
    • And to add further fuel to the fire, the fairway bunkers have been enlarged by 10% and they have added more trees down the left.
    • The new ‘Caddy’ system, which costs £249, can be clipped to a belt or golf bag and will provide exact read-outs of distances to bunkers, ponds and greens.
    • You've got three lethal bunkers off the tee and more up by the green for the lay-up.
    • It has high, wispy grass, deep bunkers and large greens, much like St Andrews.
    • Why are the bunkers in the middle of the rough?
verbˈbəŋkərˈbəNGkər
[with object]
  • 1Fuel (a ship).

    Example sentencesExamples
    • The Chief Engineer was new to the ship and had not previously bunkered the ship.
    • The boat was fully provisioned and bunkered with fuel, food and water as per normal for a fishing trip which might last up to ten days.
    • Once he bet that while helping bunker a ship in the harbour he could dive and swim to shore.
  • 2be bunkeredGolf
    (of a player) have one's ball lodged in a bunker.

    he was bunkered at the fifth hole
    Example sentencesExamples
    • When Murray was bunkered at the short 13th and missed from 6ft, O'Hara was suddenly in command with a three-hole lead.
    • But, while they both parred the 200-yard 13th, Westwood was bunkered once more.
    • When Goosen was bunkered on the 14th and dropped another shot, the momentum he had found on the front nine had been arrested, and he had slipped from the lead into mere contention.
    • He was bunkered in two, came out to nine feet, but missed again.
    1. 2.1 Hit (the ball) into a bunker.
      he bunkered his second shot
      Example sentencesExamples
      • It was at the same hole that McGinley bunkered his approach in the BMW PGA Championship final round, the resultant bogey costing him that title.
      • But after birdies at the 13th, 15th and 16th drew him level, Kennedy bunkered his approach to the 18th and missed his par putt from six feet.
      • I noted Tebbutt usually gobbled up any chances, but one that got away came at the sixth, where she missed a winning metre-long par putt after Winter bunkered her second.
      • I bunkered my drive then fluffed my next shot, but then I rolled in a 25-foot putt for a par.
      • Clarke two-putted the long second for birdie, bunkered his approach to the next and failed to get up and down but took the lead when he sank birdie putts of eight and 20 feet at the fifth and sixth.
      • Both were in the rough off the tee at the 483-yard par-four 17th, then O'Hern could not make the green and Poulter bunkered his second.
      • Her rally faltered momentarily when she bunkered her second to lose the 12th to go two down again, but promptly birdied the long fifth with two big hits on to the green and the 14th after an approach shot to within seven feet of the flag.
      • Reid, also playing for position off the tee, was down the middle, but his second was bunkered left of the green, from where he played a great sand save to a foot from the pin.
      • Now one up with two go, the 35th was halved in par fives, but Bjorn was safely on in two at the last and Curtis bunkered his second.
      • He bunkered his tee shot, exploded out to 10 feet, missed his par putt and then missed a tiddler.
      • She reached the 8th in good order, but bunkered her tee shot.
      • Knowing he is on the verge of the Claret Jug, Levet sends his tee shot wide right, and then badly bunkers his second.
      • The average golfer can be intimidated when the ball is bunkered.
      • They made 5 birdies and an eagle 3 at the 4th hole with the only mistake coming on the 8th hole where they both bunkered their second shots.
  • 3no object Take refuge in a bunker or other shelter.

    his family had bunkered down inside their home
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Unwilling to bunker down, the Australians absorbed some damage and deflected the rest.
    • The party won massive leads in its segments, while its opponents' supporters bunkered down at home on election day.
    • He is, of course, well prepared, bunkered down in the Treasury with all his billions.
    • It's warm and friendly, but also a home in which an exile could easily bunker down in bitter isolation.
    • One of the great things about the football team - the Canterbury football team - is that they really bunker down under pressure.
    • There is the occasional furtive movement from the militiamen bunkered down inside - watching you watching them.
    • I can remember bunkering down in the library.
    • At first, we bunkered behind fallen tree trunks and heaved spear-like sticks until a birthday party ended in blood and stitches.
    • She plans to bunker down in Montreal for a serious stretch of time, reading and thinking and seeing what comes.
    • Bunker down in your burrow.
    • Experts said it was unlikely he would have left the country, opting instead to try and bunker down and consolidate his position for the winter.
    • The former Governor has spent four days bunkered down at Government House, with the nation's media camped at the gates.
    • We were too hammered to run anywhere, so we just bunkered down against the bank and laughed about it.
    • If you stay home, bunker down and enjoy.
    • The White House is hunkered down, if not bunkered down.
    • The Germans were preparing to advance across Russia towards Stalingrad and were already bunkered down on the Normandy coast, staring across at England.
    • The second half we probably sat back a little bit, but we bunkered in and held them off.
    • When the time arrives to bunker down, when the insides are under threat from the outsides, here sit I, ears tweaked to the luminescence within.
    • And you can't bunker down in your house for this amount of time.
    • I need to bunker down this weekend and get a big chunk done.

Origin

Mid 16th century (originally Scots, denoting a seat or bench): perhaps related to bunk.

 
 
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