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bunker

[buhng-ker]

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noun

a large bin or receptacle; a fixed chest or box.
a coal bunker.
a fortification set mostly below the surface of the ground with overhead protection provided by logs and earth or by concrete and fitted with openings through which guns may be fired.
Golf.��any obstacle, as a sand trap or mound of dirt, constituting a hazard.

Nautical.��
1. to provide fuel for (a vessel).
2. to convey (bulk cargo, except grain) from a vessel to an adjacent storehouse.
Golf.��to hit (a ball) into a bunker.
to equip with or as if with bunkers.
to bunker an army's defenses.

bunker

/ ˈ��ʌŋ��ə /

a large storage container or tank, as for coal
Also called (esp US and Canadian): sand trap.��an obstacle on a golf course, usually a sand-filled hollow bordered by a ridge
an underground shelter, often of reinforced concrete and with a bank and embrasures for guns above ground

(tr) golf
1. to drive (the ball) into a bunker
2. (passive) to have one's ball trapped in a bunker
(tr) nautical
1. to fuel (a ship)
2. to transfer (cargo) from a ship to a storehouse

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Origin of bunker¹

First recorded in 1750–60; earlier bonkar ( Scots ) “box, chest, serving also as a seat,” of obscure origin

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Origin of bunker¹

C16 (in the sense: chest, box): from Scottish bonkar , of unknown origin

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The US has bunker buster bombs Israel believes can destroy Iran's underground uranium enrichment site at Fordow.

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The "bunker busting" bombs Israel has been using to target Iran's underground nuclear programme are mostly US-supplied.

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Hanse has also removed bunkers from the back right of the green.

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