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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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Etymology of 'Bundle'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Bundle" Quotes from Famous Books

... when lifting the bundle he had made. "I may be marooned around here a long time, and never get another chance at this supply station. I believe in striking while the iron's hot. Now to get it outside without raising ...

— Air Service Boys Over The Enemy's Lines - The German Spy's Secret • Charles Amory Beach

... unanimity, nor by aggregation in external communities. The Apostle's great thought is made small and the truth of it is falsified when it is over-hastily embodied in institutions. It has been sought in a uniformity which resembles unity as much as a bundle of faggots, all cut to the same length, and tied together with a rope, resemble the tree from which they were chopped, waving in the wind and living one life to the tips of its furthest branches. Men have made out of the Apostle's ...

— Expositions of Holy Scripture - Ephesians; Epistles of St. Peter and St. John • Alexander Maclaren

... little relation to the rest of his body. They fell into place. He was of a dusky countenance, partly because he was of Byzantine origin, partly because he never shaved, chiefly because he did not wash. His clothes always looked as if they had been rolled up into a bundle and used for dormitory football. Perhaps they had. Rudd was not really a bad fellow. He was by way of being a wit. One day the Chief had set the form a three-hour Divinity paper, consisting of four longish ...

— The Loom of Youth • Alec Waugh

... the shallow, shining puddles in the hard, fair French road; the pale blue sky, diluted by days of rain; the disgarnished autumnal fields; the mild sparkle of the low horizon; the solitary figure in sabots, with a bundle under its arm, advancing along the "chaussee;" and in the middle I see the little ochre-colored monument, which, in spite of its antiquity, looks bright and gay, as everything must look in France of a ...

— Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 3 • Various

... from a drawer a carefully tied bundle of letters, few, very few, as correspondence counts nowadays. Each was in its envelope just as it had arrived, and the handwriting was of the same womanly character as the historic notes. He unfolded them one by one and read them musingly. At first sight there seemed ...

— Jude the Obscure • Thomas Hardy

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