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bunkhouse

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bunk·house  (bngkhous)
n.
A building providing sleeping quarters on a ranch or in a camp.
bunkhouse [ˈbʌŋkˌhaʊs]
n
(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Agriculture) (in the US and Canada) a building containing the sleeping quarters of workers on a ranch
Translations
bunkhouse [ˈbʌŋkhaʊs] N (bunkhouses (pl)) [ˈbʌŋkhaʊzɪz] (US) → casa f de dormitorios(para trabajadores de hacienda)


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To witness a snowslide within a short distance of the miner's bunkhouse is no rare occurrence.
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Covarrubias-Lopez came from Carranza, Jalisco, to Bakersfield in 1958 to pick beans and corn but wound up working in the bracero bunkhouse as a handyman.
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