BUNKER


Meaning of BUNKER in English

n. & v.

--n.

1. a large container or compartment for storing fuel.

2 a reinforced underground shelter, esp. for use in wartime.

3 a hollow filled with sand, used as an obstacle in a golf-course.

--v.tr.

1. fill the fuel bunkers of (a ship etc.).

2 (usu. in passive) a trap in a bunker (in sense 3). b bring into difficulties.

Etymology: 19th c.: orig. unkn.

Oxford English vocab.      Оксфордский английский словарь.