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# The BFD Word of the Day
- URL: https://goodoil.news/the-bfd-word-of-the-day-160/
- Published: 2020-07-04T18:15:00.000Z
- Updated: 2020-07-03T23:47:02.000Z
- Author: Peter Andersen
- Tags: General, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-17 03:00

The word for today is…

bunker (noun) – 1\. (a) A bin or tank especially for fuel storage, as on a ship.  
(b) (often bunkers) Fuel, such as coal or fuel oil, used especially in ships.  
2\. An underground fortification, often with a concrete projection above ground level for observation or gun emplacements.  
3\. Sports See sand trap.

(verb) – 1\. To store or place (fuel) in a bunker.  
2\. (Sports) To hit (a golf ball) into a sand trap.

Source : [The Free Dictionary](https://www.thefreedictionary.com/bunker?ref=goodoil.news)

Etymology : 1758, originally Scottish, “seat, bench,” a word of uncertain origin, possibly a variant of banker “bench” (1670s); or possibly from a Scandinavian source (compare Old Swedish bunke “boards used to protect the cargo of a ship”). Meaning “receptacle for coal aboard a ship” is from 1839\. Of sand-holes on golf courses, by 1824, from the extended sense “earthen seat” (1805). The meaning “dug-out fortification” probably is from World War I.

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