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# hunker

«hunker» in Mova's school dictionary: **to squat or crouch down low, often on the heels, or to…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

verb (hunkers, hunkered, hunkering)

### meaning for a pupil

To hunker is to squat or crouch down low, often on the heels, or to sit low on a branch or a seat. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hunker/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

in the tales hunker describes a king or a creature sitting low and crouched, often in a silly or funny position

### examples

- The boy hunkered down behind the wall to hide. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hunker/#x1)
- The old man hunkered by the fire. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hunker/#x2)
- The birds hunkered on the branch in the rain. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hunker/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «hunker» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hunker/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.