(n.) A wooden case or box, which serves for a seat in the daytime and for a bed at night.
(n.) One of a series of berths or bed places in tiers.
(n.) A piece of wood placed on a lumberman's sled to sustain the end of heavy timbers.
(v. i.) To go to bed in a bunk; -- sometimes with in.
Example Sentences:
(1) At about 10.15pm, he woke and saw Michael hanging from the top rail of the double bunk.
(2) A studio for three (which includes a set of bunk beds) during the same period, in Praia apartments, 9km from the Maracanã, is available for £7,819.
(3) Soldiers also spoke of how positive the experience had been – even if they had lost out on a bunk.
(4) But surely no machinist could bunk off their punishing workload to script these complaints in pristine English, stitch them in and whisk them past a pin-sharp inspector.
(5) The former TV and radio presenter, who suffers from an irregular heartbeat, sleeps on the bottom bunk of the bed he shares with his cellmate because he is unable to tackle the ladders, the court heard.
(6) This was partly compensated for by a higher intake of bunk feedstuffs.
(7) He slept in a bunk bed in his parents’ home until, aged 24, he left to get married to another solicitor, Saadiya Ahmed.
(8) She did not hesitate to treat Hefner's emancipation claims as bunk.
(9) The two groups of cows were housed in adjoining lots and fed identical rations from opposite sides of a feed bunk which provided .9 m linear feeding space per cow.
(10) In the barrack, the bunks were three on top of each other.
(11) Rationing of individual concentrates was according to parity, milk yield, milk yield potential, BW changes, and bunk feed-stuffs.
(12) Injuries occurred during sleep (19 children [29%]), getting in or out of the bunk bed (13 children [20%]), or playing in or near the beds (28 children [43%]).
(13) The Tories’ Corbyn attack video is absurd, paranoid and nasty – and will work | Jonathan Jones Read more Needless to say, both depictions are bunk.
(14) A control group of children who use bunk beds but who came to the emergency department for another reason were also interviewed.
(15) The boys in the top bunks played mouth organs, and I danced to entertain them.
(16) Among women with a duration of pregnancy between 37 and 42 gestational weeks procentual frequency, confidence intervals of O. Bunke, pounts of separability and areas of unsharpners were analysed.
(17) Numerous flights out of Wellington, Auckland and regional North Island centres have also been delayed or diverted due to the conditions, with passengers bunking down in the airport after being unable to find accommodation in the city.
(18) Many of them had to sleep on the floor to give holidaymakers their bunks.
(19) David Cameron shared a military bunk bed with former England player Michael Owen on their flight out to Afghanistan to promote a new football partnership aimed at boosting national spirit in the war-torn country.
(20) She conceded it would, observing that if visitors had the stamina to walk up the cursus or the avenue from the east, there would be nothing stopping them from bunking in without paying.
Busk
Definition:
(n.) A thin, elastic strip of metal, whalebone, wood, or other material, worn in the front of a corset.
(v. t. & i.) To prepare; to make ready; to array; to dress.
(v. t. & i.) To go; to direct one's course.
Example Sentences:
(1) But then came a challenge I couldn't turn down – busking outside Camden tube station with Billy Bragg , one of my musical and political heroes, who was happy to tutor and coax me through our favourite playlist.
(2) Raffles hitch-hiked ahead of the troupe, often sleeping rough, to busk for new bookings.
(3) Simply because he is not begging on a street corner (except when he's busking, which he does with glorious chutzpah) or drooling with a spent needle hanging from his arm, you presume he is doing fine.
(4) Get good at busking and later, when you're playing the Pyramid stage, you know you won't be fazed.
(5) A harpist takes a break from busking in a bustling Carmarthen shopping street to discuss two of his great passions: music and politics.
(6) I put on my performance face, threw my head back, and enjoyed myself – but safe in the knowledge that standing beside me on my right hand side was a man with decades of busking experience and a natural affinity with the crowd.
(7) I had always wanted to try busking but found the idea daunting – especially doing it alone.
(8) Updated at 11.10am BST 10.57am BST And now, it's time for Ed Miliband.... Jon Snow is just busking for a moment or two ahead of Ed Miliband coming on to the stage.
(9) "I had to have six frets on my guitar replaced – they were completely worn out from busking to the signing queue.
(10) In Galway, I went out busking on the streets, singing the filthiest, most debauched lyrics I could think of to see if anyone would understand.
(11) You started busking at the age of 15 and developed a street persona called Lippo.
(12) It didn't help that the Sunday before our busking "date", disaster struck; I lost my voice.
(13) The voice When you're busking, you're competing with the noise of the street, the traffic, and you're trying to get the attention of people who are in a hurry.
(14) They were busking and making good money, so Heaton was shocked when he learned they were all quitting to go to university.
(15) In 1968, aged 17, I quit school (in Ontario, Canada) and hitchhiked all over north America, busking and staying with people I met.
(16) We were still in a small room, effectively busking a script, but it was starting to grow.
(17) Photograph: Linda Nylind for the Guardian "So it's OK, for example, to sit around as long as you are in a cafe or in a designated place where certain restful activities such as drinking a frappucino should take place but not activities like busking, protesting or skateboarding.
(18) There were storytellers, drawing lessons, and an area for busking and debating.
(19) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Benjamin Zephaniah in Lincolnshire: ‘I miss the multiculturalism of London.’ Photograph: David Sillitoe for the Guardian There’s a wonderful little town where I live and I love the independent shops, old-fashioned sweet shops run by little old ladies, an entertainer on the street just for the sake of it, not necessarily busking.
(20) After six years, I moved back to Canada, busking again and earning enough to pay my rent.