bunker

1. 1.

   hit a golf ball into a bunker

   Broaderhit
2. 2.

   fill (a ship's bunker) with coal or oil

   Broaderfuel
3. 3.

   transfer cargo from a ship to a warehouse

   Broadertransfer

Other forms of bunker

plural

bunkers·

past tense

bunkerred·

present participle

bunkerring·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about bunker

What does bunker mean?

bunker means "a hazard on a golf course". That is the primary sense; the word has 6 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in bunker?

bunker has 2 syllables: bun-ker. The stress falls on "bun". In IPA it is /ˈbʌŋkɚ/.

What is another word for bunker?

Close synonyms include sand trap, trap, dugout. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is bunker a common word?

bunker is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.