bunk

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. A narrow bed built like a shelf into or against a wall, as in a ship's cabin.
2. n. A bunk bed.
3. n. A place for sleeping.
4. v. To sleep in a bunk or bed.
5. v. To stay the night; sleep: bunk over at a friend's house.
6. v. To go to bed: bunked down early.
7. v. To provide with sleeping quarters.
8. n. Empty talk; nonsense.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. A wooden case or compartment in a vessel, a sleeping-car, etc., and sometimes in a dwelling-house, used as a sleeping-berth.
2. n. A piece of timber placed across a sled to sustain a heavy weight.
3. To occupy a bunk; hence, to occupy a bed; sleep: as, the two boys bunked together.
4. n. The cross-beam on which the logs rest on a log-car or truck.
5. n. A log-car or truck.
6. To place upon the bunks: as, to bunk a log.
7. To make off; run away; decamp.

Wiktionary

1. n. One of a series of berths or bed placed in tiers.
2. n. nautical A built-in bed on board ship, often erected in tiers one above the other.
3. n. military A cot.
4. n. US A wooden case or box, which serves for a seat in the daytime and for a bed at night.
5. n. US, informal A piece of wood placed on a lumberman's sled to sustain the end of heavy timbers.
6. v. To occupy a bunk.
7. v. To provide a bunk.
8. n. slang Bunkum; senseless talk, nonsense.
9. v. UK To fail to attend school without permission; to play truant (usually as in 'to bunk off').
10. v. obsolete To expel from a school.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. U.S. A wooden case or box, which serves for a seat in the daytime and for a bed at night.
2. n. One of a series of berths or bed places in tiers.
3. n. Local, U.S. A piece of wood placed on a lumberman's sled to sustain the end of heavy timbers.
4. n. informal a bed.
5. v. Colloq. U.S. To go to bed in a bunk; -- sometimes with in.

WordNet 3.0

1. n. a rough bed (as at a campsite)
2. v. flee; take to one's heels; cut and run
3. n. a message that seems to convey no meaning
4. n. beds built one above the other
5. n. a bed on a ship or train; usually in tiers
6. v. avoid paying
7. n. a long trough for feeding cattle
8. v. provide with a bunk
9. n. unacceptable behavior (especially ludicrously false statements)