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Ship's bed
Answer for the clue "Ship's bed ", 4 letters:
bunk
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Word definitions in WordNet
n. a long trough for feeding cattle [syn: feed bunk ] a bed on a ship or train; usually in tiers [syn: berth , built in bed ] a rough bed (as at a campsite) unacceptable behavior (especially ludicrously false statements) [syn: bunkum , buncombe , guff , ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"to sleep in a bunk," 1840, originally nautical, from bunk (n.1). Related: Bunked ; bunking .
Usage examples of bunk.
More alarmed than ever, Alec drew him to the bunk and made him sit down again.
When Alec had finished, he pulled on his leather breeches beneath his nightdress, wrapped a mantle about his shoulders, and returned to his corner of the bunk, sword hidden between the pallet and the wall behind him.
Getting down from his upper bunk for roll call, Berel Jastrow murmurs the obligatory Hear O Israel morning devotion.
Zigzagging to avoid large stars which could disrupt a blink generator and send a ship and its contents into limbo for eternity, the ship blinked and rested, bunked and rested, traveling the Orion Arm in seven-league boots, covering distances which strained the imagination in an instant, held back only by the need to rest, to recharge, to build for the next jump.
From the cupboard under the bunk, he drew out a cardboard box marked Boracic Lint and turned back the brown paper lying on top.
They moved into one of the big barracks rooms, with Bosk and Devlin, another corporal, assigning bunks.
Corporal Devlin went to fetch Stammel, and Bosk moved around the room, positioning recruits beside each bunk, ready for inspection.
From out in the quad the guard bugle sounded Drill Call imperatively and Chief Choate got up from the bunk, looking at Prew blankly searchingly.
Two days later he was a trustee, and moved over to Number One, the east barrack, where the trustees bunked together, and Prew did not see him any more.
Hero Buss, Richard Becerra, and Orlando Acevedo stayed in the room with the double bed and the bunk bed, and five guards.
He seated himself on the bunk across from the young man and cocked his head in brief study as Corbeau refolded himself.
She sits rigid on her bunk under dim fluorescent light, every wall of the cubby within easy reach.
Chubby and Angelo went ashore in the dinghy - but I was too exhausted to make the effort, and dinnerless I collapsed across the double bunk in the master cabin and slept without moving until Judith woke me after nine in the morning.
After stuffing his packs into a doorless cubby at the foot of his too-short bunk and laying the black staff to one side, Justen made his way topside, where he joined Krytella at the starboard railing of the Clartham, midway between the bowsprit and the paddles.
On one side of this chamber was a stone slab, about three feet from the ground, and running its entire length like a bunk in a cabin, and on this slab he intimated that I was to sleep.