bunk
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8.0
- noun
- /bʌŋk/
- US
:
comedero
Examples
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Everybody back into the crew bunk, please.
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It's next to the bunk.
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Excuse me, can you tell me where the Navajo bunk is?
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How big are the bunks?
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At first, Mont thought the room was empty, but his ears told him otherwise: some of the bunks were occupied with gently snoring sleepers.
Fiction book (1992) -
They turn into a courtyard, a narrow alley lined on one side with cagelike cells and on the other with larger stalls crammed with wooden bunks.
Fiction book (1998) -
They have looked at a variety of control measures, including long-lasting insecticides that are sprayed each week on the exterior walls of the cattle's feed bunks.
Academic text (1994) -
The cows were fed from the long bunk that stretched along the barn wall.
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During the summer camp, each child was assigned a spot at the bunk for meals.
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The rancher installed a new bunk to ensure the cattle had enough food.
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Etymology
Bunk meaning a long feeding trough for animals comes from the same idea of a long box or 'bench' used to hold things, so picture a wooden box where animals eat. That's why a bunk holds feed for cattle.