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/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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Etymology of 'Bundle'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Bundle" Quotes from Famous Books

... dragging the clothes together and making a bundle, with which he ran off into his own room with both the others in full chase. And then began a regular scrimmage, French and English fashion, and Harry, having two enemies, was pulled down sprawling over a rushbottom chair, and then nearly kicked over the washstand, making such ...

— Hollowdell Grange - Holiday Hours in a Country Home • George Manville Fenn

... bright moonlight night when the boys, after a sad farewell from Rhoda, let themselves down from the window, and started upon their journey. Each carried a bundle on a stick; each bundle contained a suit of clothes, a few shirts and stockings, a pair of shoes, and a pistol. The other pistols were carried loaded inside their jackets, for there was no saying whom they might meet upon the road. They had put on the oldest ...

— The Young Buglers • G.A. Henty

... children, and to do the work of the house. While I was in the country, I saw how the field negroes are worked in Antigua. They are worked very hard and fed but scantily. They are called out to work before daybreak, and come home after dark; and then each has to heave his bundle of grass for the cattle in the pen. Then, on Sunday morning, each slave has to go out and gather a large bundle of grass; and, when they bring it home, they have all to sit at the manager's door and wait till he come ...

— The History of Mary Prince - A West Indian Slave • Mary Prince

... was at the bottom of the gondola as helpless as a trussed fowl. I could not shout, I could not move; I was a mere bundle. An instant later I heard once more the swishing of the water and ...

— The Adventures of Gerard • Arthur Conan Doyle

... 1634. Nothing unique in the stories was left out. The pail incident—of course without its rational explanation—was grafted into the play and put upon the stage. Indeed, a marriage that afforded the hook upon which to hang a bundle of indecencies, and the story of a virtuous husband who discovers his wife to be a witch, were the only added motives of importance. For our purpose the significance of the play lies of course in its testimony to ...

— A History of Witchcraft in England from 1558 to 1718 • Wallace Notestein

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