Definition of "sunbake"
sunbake
verb
third-person singular simple present sunbakes, present participle sunbaking, simple past and past participle sunbaked
Quotations
Larvae do not survive well in the clayey soils preferred by most geophagists, and if they do, they are generally killed by the sunbaking, air drying, and heating that many geophagists do to their soil prior to consumption (cf. chapter 1).
2011, Sera L. Young, Craving Earth: Understanding Pica: the Urge to Eat Clay, Starch, Ice, and Chalk, page 64
(Australia, New Zealand) To sunbathe.
Quotations
Such diversion as Podson could extort from his isolation was soon vitiated by repetition. He surfed. He sun-baked - with discretion till his skin had peeled and given him a harder cuticle.
1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, page 90
Ancient precedents were important in establishing the long, lost history of the benefits of sunbaking. Journalists noted that ‘The ancients′ had recognised the importance of sunlight as a cure for disease; now modern New Zealanders had to do the same.
2003, Caroline Daley, Leisure and Pleasure, Auckland University Press, page 132
noun
plural sunbakes
(Australia, New Zealand) A session of sunbathing.
Quotations
It was a simple affair. We were camping down the south coast and one of my friends leapt out of the surf and slammed down onto the beach to have a sunbake – marvellous. We made the image and it's been around, I suppose as a sort of icon of the Australian way of life.
1937, Max Dupain, Dupain's Beaches