Crossword clues for bunkhouse
bunkhouse
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Wiktionary
alt. A building providing sleeping quarters for workers, especially in a rural setting. n. A building providing sleeping quarters for workers, especially in a rural setting.
Wikipedia
A bunkhouse is a barracks-like building that historically was used to house working cowboys on ranches in North America. As most cowboys were young single men, the standard bunkhouse was a large open room with narrow beds or cots for each individual and little privacy. The bunkhouse of the late 19th century was usually heated by a wood stove and personal needs were attended to in an outhouse.
While the modern bunkhouse today is still in existence on some large ranches that are too far away from towns for an easy daily commute, it now has electricity, central heating and modern indoor plumbing.
In the United Kingdom, a bunkhouse provides accommodation with fewer facilities than a larger, staffed youth hostel. Bunkhouses are found in mountainous areas, such as the Scottish Highlands, as well as rural areas in England and Wales, for example at All Stretton.
Usage examples of "bunkhouse".
In the bunkhouse Butts and Cory each satisfied himself likewise that his weapons were in good condition.
I reckon they were trying to leave us federal peace officers out of it as long as possible, and anyone can see it takes more than three or four gunslicks to wipe out a bunkhouse full of hands, even with half of them in town or out hunting strays.
Jorge Larrea Ballesteros was sprinting down the road from the bunkhouse, the machine gun slung over his shoulder held tight against his chest as he ran, getting there a little ahead of Lazaro.
Once, she saw Stubs come out of the bunkhouse, his coat collar pulled up against the cold.
While she took a seat on the bench near the table in the center of the bunkhouse, Stubs stoked the fire in the pot-bellied stove.
I supposed to fancy myself married to one of the dusty cowhands in the bunkhouse, Da?
Catching his balance, he whipped up his sixgun and fired an instant too late to hit the man who ducked around the corner of the bunkhouse.
Hearing the sounds of shouting and scuffling, the door to the bunkhouse was thrown open and the wranglers spilled out into the darkness.
A log bunkhouse, a long squatty building set into the hillside, was not far from the barn and calving sheds in the hollow.
Either way, it was basically a two-man version of Watch Me, the card-game which had been played in barrooms and bunkhouses and around campfires since the world was young.
There is also a bunkhouse (part of the roof broken in but it's otherwise in good shape) and a number of plastic horses (a couple with only three legs) for the corral.
Krysty tugged at Ryan's sleeve, gesturing that they go back to the bunkhouses and leave Ballinger to his raging hatred.
It comprised a half-dozen companvowned houses for resident engineers, foremen and their families, a small school-now closed for summer vacation-and two motel-type bunkhouses, one for GSP & L employees, the second for visitors.
Both bunkhouses were visible, the bus in front of one, a couple of off-duty employees sunning themselves on a balcony of the other.
Crewmen passing each other on the catwalk as they either headed for work on the third shift or returned to the bunkhouses before heading for the mess deck, saying things as they dodged around each other: "Take it easy out there, pal" "What're they serving down there today, Ike?