Bunker Hill
[ buhng-ker ]
/ ˈbʌŋ kər /
noun
a hill in Charlestown, Mass.: the first major battle of the American Revolution, known as the Battle of Bunker Hill, was fought on adjoining Breed's Hill on June 17, 1775.
Example sentences from the Web for bunker hill
Bunker-hill monument was then being built, and built of Quincy granite.
'Puffing Billy' and the Prize 'Rocket' |Helen Cross KnightYou might as well try to squeeze ile out o' Bunker-Hill monument, as to c'lect a debt o' him.
Does the Bunker-Hill Monument bend in the blast like a blade of grass?
The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table |Oliver Wendell HolmesYou can buy treatises to show that Napoleon never lived, and that no battle of Bunker-hill was ever fought.
The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table |Oliver Wendell Holmes
British Dictionary definitions for bunker hill
Bunker Hill
noun
the first battle of the American Revolution, actually fought on Breed's Hill, next to Bunker Hill, near Boston, on June 17, 1775. Though defeated, the colonists proved that they could stand against British regular soldiers