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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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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Bundle" Quotes from Famous Books

... be inclined to make one. Fortunately for this officer, just before he received the shot, he had taken off his thick buckskin gauntlets and crowded them into a breast pocket. The ball had struck this bundle; and, as its force was somewhat expended by the distance it had come, it was unable to more than penetrate the mass and contuse the ...

— The Life and Adventures of Kit Carson, the Nestor of the Rocky Mountains, from Facts Narrated by Himself • De Witt C. Peters

... and then sent it at my head with a curse. I rode at him, sir, drove my sword right under his arm-hole, and broke it in the rascal's body. I found a purse in his holster with sixty-five louis in it, and a bundle of love-letters, and a flask of Hungary-water. Vive la guerre! there are the ten pieces you lent me. I should like to have a fight every day;" and he pulled at his little moustache and bade a servant bring ...

— Henry Esmond; The English Humourists; The Four Georges • William Makepeace Thackeray

... he could use it as a cradle, when he had children of his own. So the little girl went on with her little naked feet, which were quite red and blue with the cold. In an old apron she carried a number of matches, and had a bundle of them in her hands. No one had bought anything of her the whole day, nor had any one given here even a penny. Shivering with cold and hunger, she crept along; poor little child, she looked the picture of misery. The snowflakes fell on her long, fair hair, ...

— Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen • Hans Christian Andersen

... sitting there, with my head propped in my hands, when my eyes, which had seen nothing before, saw Sally coming through the hot dust in the street, with George Bolingbroke, carrying a bundle under his arm, at her side. As she neared me a perplexed and anxious look—the look I had seen always on the face of my mother when the day's burden was heavy—succeeded the smiling brightness with which she had been ...

— The Romance of a Plain Man • Ellen Glasgow

... roused me from my reverie; and looking imploringly in my face stood a thinly-clad, shivering little girl, who carried a small bundle, which she held in her hand with a singular tenacity. I gave a searching look into the child's face, while she ...

— Choice Readings for the Home Circle • Anonymous

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