Synonyms:
bunker, sand_trap, trap
Meaning: a hazard on a golf course
verb
meaning of the word
Synonyms:
bunker
Meaning: hit a golf ball into a bunker
Usage examples
A little way off to the left was the great bunker which, primarily, was the cause of their present amity.
But it had to come to earth sometime, and it fell like Lucifer, son of the morning, in the middle of the same bunker. . . .
If I had ever been a tourist in Boston, no doubt I should before now have surveyed the world from the top of the Bunker Hill monument.
Then it was the Navy's turn, and the Navy had to lie on its keel above the boards of the bunker, in order to reach its ball at all, and missed it twice.
"We shall miss the tram," said the Major, and, with the intention of giving annoyance, he sat down in the bunker with his back to Captain Puffin, and lit a cigarette.
I have passed my time in playing cat's cradle with Sir Jeffrey Bunker for the amusement of the company, and in confidential communications with my aunt and Lady Drummond.
At his third attempt nothing happened; at the fourth the ball flew against the boards, rebounded briskly again into the bunker, trickled down the steep, sandy slope and hit the Major's boot.
Just about the time that this harmonious party began their work, a far from harmonious couple were being just as industrious in the grand spacious bunker in front of the tee to the last hole on the golf-links.
All the country was aflame, and rang with the stories of what happened at Lexington and Bunker Hill. Man after man from the village took his powder horn and musket and went off to enlist for the war, and Molly grew more and more restless as she saw them go.