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A bunk is a bed or other place for sleeping, particularly a narrow bed built like a shelf into or against a wall, as in a ship's cabin, or several like beds stacked over one another known as a bunkbed. These enable people to sleep in a high density fashion, using minimal floor space. Image File history File links Ship-bunk. ... Image File history File links Ship-bunk. ... A double bed A bed is a piece of furniture or location primarily used or intended for sleeping upon, but also commonly used for sexual activities, relaxing, sitting, and reading. ... In an ideal situation, sleep should be undisturbed and experienced in the same room every night Sleep is the regular state of natural rest observed in all mammals, birds and fish. ... Shelf is a detail of furniture for storing items. ... A wall is a usually solid structure that defines and sometimes protects an area. ... Italian ship-rigged vessel Amerigo Vespucci in New York Harbor, 1976 A ship is a large, sea-going watercraft, sometimes with multiple decks. ... A cabin or cab is an enclosed space, in a ship, see cabin (ship), in an aircraft or spacecraft as a log cabin as in a hansom cab see also Uncle Toms Cabin This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share... A Bunkbed A bunk bed is a type of bed in which one bed is stacked on top of another. ...


Derived from this the verb "to bunk" carries the connotations of sleeping or having sex.


Bunk can also be used as a slang adjective as a shortened version of bunkum. It is common in the United States. A typical usage would be "That class was totally bunk." (See Buncombe County, North Carolina). Slang, is the non-standard or non-dialectal use of words in a language of a particular social group, and sometimes the creation of new words or importation of words from another language. ... This article should be transwikied to wiktionary (adj. ... Buncombe County is a county located in the state of North Carolina. ...


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"Bunk" is a term used in the lumber industry to describe 128 boards of a given length. Example: "I need a bunk of 2x4's" Look up berth in Wiktionary, the free dictionary The term berth is used to describe a bed on a boat or a location in a port or harbour used specifically for mooring vessels while not at sea or for describing playoff positions for teams with no initial competition in sports. ... The term loft mainly refers to two different types of rooms: An upper room or story in a building, directly under the roof, used either for storage (as in most private houses),for a specific purpose, eg. ...


In some states in the United States, the term has become synonymous with the action of engaging in intercourse with another. For example " Will you bunk with me? ".


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