ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Buncher

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech noun

Quick meaning: Buncher is a noun meaning A person who bunches.

Meaning

A person who bunches.

More Meanings

  1. Something that bunches or causes to bunch.
  2. An illegitimate supplier of laboratory animals who obtains the animals by kidnapping pets or illegally trapping strays.
  3. (military, RAF, World War II) A ground-based radio transmitter, configured within a system to guide aircraft to their allocated airfields.

Example Sentences

Often a buncher might come in a little early to have some work ready when rollers arrived.[…]If a buncher ran short of tobacco, the rollers got more for her.
Each airfield had its own buncher which emitted a particular radio signal. Each plane had a radio compass so that when we flew toward the buncher, the compass would go straight up. When we flew over the buncher, it would point straight down.

Word Forms

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include feller, buncha, bulker, busheler, bonker, bonkler.

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