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bunk-house

Parf of speech: Noun, OED Year: 1877, OED Evaluation: N/A

A house where workmen, etc., are lodged.

ExampleMeaning
One resident who lived near an abandoned gold mine across the river had no ice problems though. They used to store their food on shelves built part way down the mine shaft, it was nice and cool down there. Two large bunk houses called the Hub were located on the bank of the Moira River on the other side of the plant from the village over looking a beautiful little falls. Here the single workmen were housed.
A house where workmen, etc., are lodged.
ExampleMeaning
Interviewer: Ah what sort of conditions would there be for the men living there? Speaker: Well they were very good. They wa-- it was good food or most of them were and ah they had their bunks. You-know like a bunk house and bunks see? They didn't have their private bedrooms or-anything-like-that see? Just like one big auditorium with a whole bunch of bunk beds in it, that was all, see?
A house where workmen, etc., are lodged.
ExampleMeaning
Speaker: ... but there the place where there's garbage (inc), the guys are sleeping in that with ah- with ah you-know old mattress to try to get there long enough that they can get- get on at the mine eh? 'Cause you get on there, you're fairly good pay and bunk-house to stay in and the rest of it was- it was good. Interviewer: So you worked, you said you worked in the assay office? Speaker: Yeah in- in for the winter time yeah. But ah we were lucky because in ah- soon as the war started, all the men disappeared.
A house where workmen, etc., are lodged.
ExampleMeaning
Interviewer: Now is this an original pond or was it man-made? Speaker: Yeah, no it- it used to be- over here where all those buildings is what used to be what we called Green-Grass. They um- there was a bunker- where this building is being built. It was the Lakeshore bunk-houses where the superintendents and the foremens and all that lived in there. And then in between there and over here it was- it was a soccer field and a ball field and we call it- and this is where we played as kids and-that, eh?
A house where workmen, etc., are lodged.
ExampleMeaning
... he did one infront of us and he showed us exactly how grafting is- ... Done and- and brought us up to like the bunk house that him and his sons had built on the top of the hill ...
A house where workmen, etc., are lodged.
ExampleMeaning
He was eaten in his bed, the- the polar got in the bunk house. They said the guard was having a sleep. They used to mount guards because these things would come around at night. They knew there were people in these places and break in and- and ah then when they found him, he was eating the thing and- eating the employee.
A house where workmen, etc., are lodged.
ExampleMeaning
And the Indians had been staying there. There the- we get there, we got there in time for dinner back to York-- from Yorktown. So we ate and that. And they said "Well you better leave your clothes and-that- bags and-that in here. We're cleaning up the bunk house 'cause there's ah lice and everything else in there." I thought "What?" God, like the house got cleaned out. But this freaking bunkhouse with Indians all in it. I ain't nothing against Indians. I had lots of friends that were Indians from Rama ...
A house where workmen, etc., are lodged.