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bun⋅dle

  [buhn-dl] noun, verb, -dled, -dling.
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–noun
1. several objects or a quantity of material gathered or bound together: a bundle of hay.
2. an item, group, or quantity wrapped for carrying; package.
3. a number of things considered together: a bundle of ideas.
4. Slang. a great deal of money: He made a bundle in the market.
5. Botany. an aggregation of strands of specialized conductive and mechanical tissues.
6. Also called bundle of isoglosses. Dialect Geography. a group of close isoglosses running in approximately the same direction, esp. when taken as evidence of an important dialect division.
7. Anatomy, Zoology. an aggregation of fibers, as of nerves or muscles.
–verb (used with object)
8. to tie together or wrap in a bundle: Bundle the newspapers for the trash man.
9. to send away hurriedly or unceremoniously (usually fol. by off, out, etc.): They bundled her off to the country.
10. to offer or supply (related products or services) in a single transaction at one all-inclusive price.
–verb (used without object)
11. to leave hurriedly or unceremoniously (usually fol. by off, out, etc.): They indignantly bundled out of the meeting.
12. (esp. of sweethearts during courtship in early New England) to lie in the same bed while fully clothed, as for privacy and warmth in a house where an entire family shared one room with a fireplace.
—Verb phrase
13. bundle up, to dress warmly or snugly: A blizzard was raging but the children were all bundled up.
—Idiom
14. drop one's bundle, Australian and New Zealand Slang. to lose confidence or hope.
Origin:
1350–1400; ME bundel < MD bundel, bondel; akin to bind

Related forms:
bundler, noun

Synonyms:
1. Bundle, bunch refer to a number of things or an amount of something fastened or bound together. Bundle implies a close binding or grouping together, and often refers to a wrapped package: a bundle of laundry, of dry goods. A bunch is a number of things, usually all of the same kind, fastened together: a bunch of roses, of keys. 2. parcel, pack, packet.
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bun·dle   (bŭn'dl)   
n.  
  1. A group of objects held together, as by tying or wrapping.
  2. Something wrapped or tied up for carrying; a package.
  3. Biology A cluster or strand of closely bound muscle or nerve fibers.
  4. Botany A vascular bundle.
  5. Informal
    1. A large amount; a lot: had a bundle of fun at the dance.
    2. A large sum of money: made a bundle selling real estate.
v.   bun·dled, bun·dling, bun·dles

v.   tr.
  1. To tie, wrap, or gather together.
  2. To dispatch or dispense of quickly and with little fuss; hustle: bundled the child off to school.
  3. To dress (a person) warmly: bundled them up in winter clothes.
v.   intr.
  1. To hurry; hasten: The children came bundling in from outside.
  2. To dress oneself warmly.
  3. To sleep in the same bed while fully clothed, a custom formerly practiced by engaged couples in New England and in Wales.

[Middle English bundel, probably from Middle Dutch bondel; see bhendh- in Indo-European roots.]
bun'dler n.
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Bundle

Bun"dle\ (b[u^]n"d'l), n. [OE. bundel, AS. byndel; akin to D. bondel, bundel, G. b["u]ndel, dim. of bund bundle, fr. the root of E. bind. See Bind.] 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. --Goldsmith.

Bundle pillar (Arch.), a column or pier, with others of small dimensions attached to it. --Weale.

Bundle

Bun"dle\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Bundled; p. pr. & vb. n. 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. --T. Hook.

To bundle off, to send off in a hurry, or without ceremony.

To bundle one's self up, to wrap one's self up warmly or cumbrously.

Bundle

Bun"dle\, 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. --Bartlett.

Van Corlear stopped occasionally in the villages to eat pumpkin pies, dance at country frolics, and bundle with the Yankee lasses. --W. Irving.
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Language Translation for : bundle
Spanish: fardo,
German: das Bündel,
Japanese: 束
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bundle 
c.1331, from M.Du. bondel dim. of bond, from binden "bind," or perhaps a merger of this word and O.E. byndele "binding," from P.Gmc. base *bundilin, from PIE base *bhendh- "tie." The verb meaning "to wrap up in warm heavy clothes" is from 1893. Bundling (1781) "sharing a bed for the night, fully dressed, wrapped up with someone of the opposite sex" was a former local custom in Wales and New England.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Main Entry: bun·dle
Pronunciation: 'b&n-d&l
Function: noun
: a small band of mostly parallel fibers (as of nerve or muscle) : FASCICULUS, TRACT
Merriam-Webster's Medical Dictionary, © 2002 Merriam-Webster, Inc.
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bundle bun·dle (bŭn'dl)
n.
A structure composed of a group of fibers, such as a fasciculus.

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bundle

In addition to the idiom beginning with bundle, also see make a bundle.

The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.
Copyright © 1997. Published by Houghton Mifflin.
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