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Definition of Hunkering
1. hunker [v] - See also: hunker
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hunkering
Literary usage of Hunkering
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Transactions by Gaelic Society of Inverness (1899)
"... hunkering ;" cf. Sc. «(?•)•, to " hunker," currie, a stool, Eng. cower.
It also means a "fledgling" (Arg.). ..."
2. Bulletin by United States (1918)
"Loading ocean-going vessels. Bulk storage. Stock pile—The stock pile a bulk
warehouse. Stock pile foundations. Shi|> hunkering. ..."
3. An Almanack for the Year of Our Lord by Joseph Whitaker (1869)
"... but with the opening of the Suez Canal it regained more than its old importance
and is now a great oil hunkering and coaling station anJ port of call, ..."
4. The Bookman (1895)
"The chiefs gather for palaver (or whatever they are pleased to call hunkering-
and-blethering out there), and they tell the Tale-teller of heads taken and ..."
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