English Dictionary

bunker

/ˈbʌŋk.əː/

noun

(military) A hardened shelter, often partly buried or fully underground, designed to protect the inhabitants from falling bombs or other attacks.

The soldiers took cover in the bunker during the bombing.

意味（1）

(military) A hardened shelter, often partly buried or fully underground, designed to protect the inhabitants from falling bombs or other attacks.

意味（2）

(nautical) A container for storing coal or fuel oil for a ship's engine; (by extension) the quantity of fuel needed to replenish that container.

意味（3）

(rail transport) The coal compartment on a tank engine.

Among tank engines, the 0-6-2 wheel arrangement was by far the most numerous, there being nearly 450 of this arrangement, which offers the advantage of good power and adhesive weight, coupled with adequate tank and bunker capacity, within a limited compass.

意味（4）

(golf) A hazard on a golf course consisting of a sand-filled hollow.

https://books.google.com/books?id=Dx0GAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA204 Letter X, page 204 At length I came within sight of them, three in number, where they sat cosily niched, into what you might call a bunker, a little sand-pit, dry and snug, and surrounded by its banks, and a screen of whins in full bloom. […] https://books.google.com/books?id=Dx0GAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA223 Letter XI, page 223 And are ye in the wont of drawing up wi' all the gangrel bodies that ye meet on the high road, or find cowering in a sand-bunker upon the links?

https://books.google.com/books?id=Dx0GAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA204 Letter X, page 204 At length I came within sight of them, three in number, where they sat cosily niched, into what you might call a bunker, a little sand-pit, dry and snug, and surrounded by its banks, and a screen of whins in full bloom. […] https://books.google.com/books?id=Dx0GAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA223 Letter XI, page 223 And are ye in the wont of drawing up wi' all the gangrel bodies that ye meet on the high road, or find cowering in a sand-bunker upon the links? Used to refer to a sand-filled hollow in general.

意味（5）

(paintball) An obstacle used to block an opposing player's view and field of fire.

意味（6）

(Britain, chiefly historical) A large bin or container for storing coal, often built outdoors in the yard of a house.

意味（7）

A sort of box or chest, as in a window, the lid of which serves as a seat.

A winnock-bunker in the eaſt, / There ſat auld Nick, in ſhape o' beaſt; […]

意味（8）

(slang) A kitchen worktop.