bunk

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He said to me: "Paul, my bunk is yours."

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  1. noun A narrow bed built like a shelf into or against a wall, as in a ship's cabin.
  2. noun A bunk bed.
  3. noun A place for sleeping.

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  • On the walls he could dimly discern two or three pictures, and just above his bunk was a portrait of a lady. —  Across the Spanish Main A Tale of the Sea in the Days of Queen Bess
  • With a stifled cry he flung himself down in the bunk, and pulled the coverlet over him once again, closing his eyes, and simulating heavy breathing, in the hope of persuading the new-comers that he was in a deep slumber He was only just in time, for as he composed his limbs into a comfortable position, in the event of the strangers making a lengthy stay, two men entered Roger looked at them from between his nearly-closed eyelids and saw that both were tall men, slender and dark, both wearing long black mustachios and closely trimmed beards. —  Across the Spanish Main A Tale of the Sea in the Days of Queen Bess
  • He found the apelike bodyguard stretched out on a bunk, a vacant smile on his face A yell from the basement called him back down to where Izzy was busily going through piles of crates and boxes stacked along one wall. —  Police Your Planet
  • We laid her in Sim's bunk, and Flora was as tender with her as though she had been a baby Hookie!" —  Down The River Buck Bradford and His Tyrants
  • He was sore all over from lying on the bare slats of the bunk, and the dregs of the drug still clogged his mind and muscles; but like the flame in a foul lantern there burned in him the fires of anger Shanghaied!" —  Those Who Smiled And Eleven Other Stories
 

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Used in the same context Used in the Same Context

cot ·  berth ·  couch ·  pallet ·  mattress ·  shelve ·  crate ·  bench ·  locker ·  bookshelf ·  stool ·  bedroom

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bunk:   bunks
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Etymologies (4)

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  1. Perhaps short for bunker.
  2. Short for bunkum.

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  1. Of Scandinavian origin, prob. affected in sense by bank, dial. benk, bink, a bench: from (1) Icelandic bunki = Old Swedish and Swedish dial. bunke = Norwegian bunke = Danish bunke, a heap, pile (cf. Middle Low German bunk, a bone, especially one of the prominent bones of a large animal, = OFries. bunke, East Friesic bunke, North Friesic bunk, a bone), apparently the same as (2) Old Danish bunke, a cargo stowed in the hold of a ship, the hold itself, the bilge, the bottom, = Old Swedish bunke, part of a ship, prob. the hold; prob. also the same as (3) Old Danish bunke = Swedish bunke = Norwegian bunka, bunk, a broad, low milk-pan, and (4) Old Danish bunke, the site of a building: these forms being more or less confused with (5) Icelandic bunga, a slight elevation, = Norwegian bunga, a little heap, bung, byng, bunk, a slight protuberance or dent, bungutt, bunkutt, dented, apparently connected (as bump, a blow, with bump, a protuberance, or as bunch with bunch) with Swedish bunga, strike: see bunch and bung, and cf. bunch, which may be considered an assibilated form of bunk. Cf. bulk.
  2. from bunk, n.
 

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