bunker

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  1. noun A bin or tank especially for fuel storage, as on a ship.
  2. noun Fuel, such as coal or fuel oil, used especially in ships. Often used in the plural.
  3. noun An underground fortification, often with a concrete projection above ground level for observation or gun emplacements.
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  • Nearby there's a French bunker, and the whole tunnel system is so complex that the two parties never met. —  Miru Kim's underground art
  • Soon the base was under enemy control, and it appeared to Lieutenant Fitzgerald that his bunker was the last point of resistance. —  Brown Waters, Black Berets
  • The dispatcher had told her it looked like a bunker, and that it did; with low concrete windows narrow enough to be rifle slits. —  ClayYeager'sRedemption
  • The debate on survivability by getting into a bunker is also very interesting.
  • Campbell tried to be a little too precise with his shot out of the bunker, and failed to get out. —  Sunjournal - Connecting you with your Community
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  1. Scots bonker, chest, perhaps of Scandinavian origin.

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  1. from bunk + -er. Cf. banker in the sense of ‘a bench, a seat.’
  2. Short for mossbunker, q. v.
 

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