bunk

1) (Ang. Sax. beuc. Germ. bank. Danish, baenk, a bench, a form.) A wooden case used in country taverns and in offices which serves alike for a seat during the day and for a bed at night. They are common throughout the Northern States.

Dr. Jamieson has the word bunker, a bench, or sort of low chests that serve for seats--also, a seat in a window, which serves for a chest, opening with a hinged lid.--Etym. Dict. Scottish Language.

Ithers frae off the bunkers sank,

We e'en like the collops scor'd.--Ramsay's Poems, Vol. I. p. 280.

In some parts of Scotland a bunker or bunkart, which Dr. Jamieson thinks to be the same word, means an earthen seat in the fields. In the North of England, a seat in front of a house, made of stones or sods, is called a bink.

2) A piece of wood placed on a lumberman's sled to enable it to sustain the end of heavy pieces of timber.--Maine.