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Bundle   /bˈəndəl/   Listen
noun
Bundle  n.  A number of things bound together, as by a cord or envelope, into a mass or package convenient for handling or conveyance; a loose package; a roll; as, a bundle of straw or of paper; a bundle of old clothes. "The fable of the rods, which, when united in a bundle, no strength could bend."
Bundle pillar (Arch.), a column or pier, with others of small dimensions attached to it.


verb
Bundle  v. t.  (past & past part. bundled; pres. part. bundling)  
1.
To tie or bind in a bundle or roll.
2.
To send off abruptly or without ceremony. "They unmercifully bundled me and my gallant second into our own hackney coach."
3.
To sell together as a single item at one inclusive price; usually done for related products which work or are used together.
To bundle off, to send off in a hurry, or without ceremony; as, the working mothers bundle their children off to school and then try to get themselves to work on time.
To bundle one's self up, to wrap one's self up warmly or cumbrously.


Bundle  v. i.  
1.
To prepare for departure; to set off in a hurry or without ceremony.
2.
To sleep on the same bed without undressing; applied to the custom of a man and woman, especially lovers, thus sleeping. "Van Corlear stopped occasionally in the villages to eat pumpkin pies, dance at country frolics, and bundle with the Yankee lasses."
To bundle up, to dress warmly, snugly, or cumbrously.





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"Bundle" Quotes from Famous Books



... (combatants) 726; host &c (multitude) 102; populousness. clan, brotherhood, fraternity, sorority, association &c (party) 712. volley, shower, storm, cloud. group, cluster, Pleiades, clump, pencil; set, batch, lot, pack; budget, assortment, bunch; parcel; packet, package; bundle, fascine^, fasces^, bale; seron^, seroon^; fagot, wisp, truss, tuft; shock, rick, fardel^, stack, sheaf, haycock^; fascicle, fascicule^, fasciculus [Lat.], gavel, hattock^, stook^. accumulation &c (store) 636; congeries, heap, lump, pile, rouleau^, tissue, mass, pyramid; bing^; drift; ...
— Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases: Body • Roget
... the wood or xylem and the bast or phloem stand side by side on the same radius. In the larger of the two great groups into which the Angiosperms are divided, the Dicotyledons, the bundles in the very young stem are arranged in an open ring, separating a central pith from an outer cortex. In each bundle, separating the xylem and phloem, is a layer of meristem or active formative tissue, known as cambium; by the formation of a layer of cambium between the bundles (interfascicular cambium) a complete ring is formed, and a regular periodical increase in thickness ...
— Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Part 1, Slice 1 • Various
... the chase, this only spurred them on. They gathered a bundle of wood, piled it up at the foot of the pine, and set fire to it. In a twinkling the tree began to sputter and burn like a candle blown by the wind. Pinocchio saw the flames climb higher and higher. Not ...
— The Adventures of Pinocchio • C. Collodi--Pseudonym of Carlo Lorenzini
... the bundle on his arm, but MISS SUSAN does not wake up. Even the banging of the outer door is unable to rouse her. It is heard, however, by MISS PHOEBE, who steals back into the room, her cap upon her head to ...
— Quality Street - A Comedy • J. M. Barrie
... down on a great bundle which I saw was stubble straw, and again began to pray. This time it was in Egyptian, as though she feared lest the Hebrew should ...
— Moon of Israel • H. Rider Haggard


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