DCHP-3

cannon bunk

Lumbering, Hist.
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a kind of bunk placed in banks at right angles to the wall so that the user must crawl in head first and out feet first (as in charging a muzzle-loading gun).

Quotations

1919
You have in some camps what are known as "cannon bunks." That is double bunks arranged lengthwise, generally double-deckers, which gives four men about six feet of space to sit down.