Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: bunk
IPA transcription: [b'ʌŋk]
noun meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: bunk, feed_bunk
    Meaning: a long trough for feeding cattle
  • Synonyms: berth, bunk, built_in_bed
    Meaning: a bed on a ship or train; usually in tiers
  • Synonyms: bunk
    Meaning: a rough bed (as at a campsite)
Usage examples
  • He lay in his bunk pondering upon it.
  • We rolled him in a blanket and put him in a sailor's bunk.
  • He finished with his bottles, put them into the incubator, and piled into his bunk, swallowing one of the tablets of morphetal the ship furnished.
  • When she went to her foul steerage bunk at last, between the clashing engines, it was not to sleep, but only to wait for the morning, and, waiting, grieve.
  • It was something tangible upon which to pour profanity, however, and the atmosphere grew sulphurous in the vicinity of the blacksmith shop and remained so for several minutes, after which a tall, irate cow-puncher with his hat pulled low over angry eyes left the shop and strode up the path to the deserted bunk house.