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Definition of: bunk
(bungk) noun
1. A small compartment, shelf, box, or recess, etc., used as a sleeping place, as in a vessel, lodging house, sleeping car, etc.
2. A piece of timber across a lumberman's sled; also, the sled so arranged.
—v.i.
1. To sleep in a bunk.
2. To share a bed. [Cf. MDu. banc bench, shelf and BANK3 (def. 2)]
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