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muzzle-loading bunk
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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
1947
When he went to bed in the "muzzle-loading" bunks that lined the walls of the shanty, he stuck his knife in a niche of the wall at his head.
1959
Times have changed mightily since those days of the bucksaw, the horse, the log bunkhouse, and the "muzzle-loading" bunks in which men slept side by side under a long "canvas" made of wool army blankets sewn together.