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Bunch   /bəntʃ/   Listen
noun
Bunch  n.  
1.
A protuberance; a hunch; a knob or lump; a hump. "They will carry... their treasures upon the bunches of camels."
2.
A collection, cluster, or tuft, properly of things of the same kind, growing or fastened together; as, a bunch of grapes; a bunch of keys.
3.
(Mining) A small isolated mass of ore, as distinguished from a continuous vein.



verb
Bunch  v. t.  To form into a bunch or bunches.



Bunch  v. i.  (past & past part. bunched; pres. part. bunching)  To swell out into a bunch or protuberance; to be protuberant or round. "Bunching out into a large round knob at one end."






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"Bunch" Quotes from Famous Books



... get to the bottom. Again! again! and over again, but without result. Then, dancing on the bank with excitement, he changed the fly; tried every fly in the book; the insanity increasing, tried two flies at once, back to back; put on a bunch of trout-flies in addition; wound several worms round all; failed in every attempt to cast with care; and finished off by breaking the top of the rod, entangling the line round his legs, and fixing the ...
— Freaks on the Fells - Three Months' Rustication • R.M. Ballantyne

... hat filled with Early Harvest apples, a big bunch of Canadian anemones in her belt, a little stream at her feet, July drowsy fullness all around her, congenial companions; taking the "wings of ...
— A Daughter of the Land • Gene Stratton-Porter

... while the prince was getting ready, and found Remy waiting. He wrote hastily a little note, picked a bunch of roses from the conservatory, rolled the note round the stems, went to the stable, brought out his horse, and, putting Remy on it, and giving him the bouquet, led him out ...
— Chicot the Jester - [An abridged translation of "La dame de Monsoreau"] • Alexandre Dumas

... just back from a trip to South Dakota, where I, by ritual, a copy of which is inclosed for your perusal, made citizens out of a bunch of Indians who never can become hyphenates, and for this reason your letter has ...
— The Letters of Franklin K. Lane • Franklin K. Lane

... building, by the actions of some of the Injins. They had left the side of the church where they had posted themselves during the prayer, and head was going to head, among those nearest to us; or, it would be nearer to appearances, were I to say bunch of calico was going to bunch of calico, for nothing in the form of a head was visible among them. Nothing was said to Mr. Warren and Mary, however, who were permitted to go into the meeting-house, unmolested; ...
— The Redskins; or, Indian and Injin, Volume 1. - Being the Conclusion of the Littlepage Manuscripts • James Fenimore Cooper


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