bunchn.1
/bʌn(t)ʃ/, U.S. /bən(t)ʃ/ 1. † b. In plural. A disease of horses. ? Obsolete.† c. ‘The horn of a young stag.’ Obsolete.
a. A protuberance, esp. on the body of an animal; a hump on the back (of a human being, a camel, etc.); a goitre; a swelling, tumour.
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the world > animals > animal body > general parts > [noun] > protuberance
bunchc1325
walleta1616
bosset1859
the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > swelling > [noun] > a swelling or protuberance
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knobc1405
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knurc1460
waxing kernel?c1460
lump?a1500
waxen-kernel1500
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puff1538
tumour?1541
swelling1542
elevation1543
enlarging1562
knub1563
pimple1582
ganglion1583
button1584
phyma1585
emphysema?1587
flesh-pimple1587
oedem?a1591
burgeon1597
wartle1598
hurtle1599
pough1601
wart1603
extumescence1611
hulch1611
peppernel1613
affusion1615
extumescency1684
jog1715
knibloch1780
tumefaction1802
hunch1803
income1808
intumescence1822
gibber1853
tumescence1859
whetstone1886
tumidity1897
Osler's node1920
the world > animals > animal body > general parts > body and limbs > [noun] > hump
bunchc1325
botchc1330
gibc1440
kibe1567
hump1709
c1325 Body & Soul in Map's Poems (1841) 344 Summe were ragged and tayled Mid brode bunches on heore bak.
a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) II. xviii. xix. 1156 Þe camele of Arabia haþ tweye bonches on þe bak.
1543 B. Traheron tr. J. de Vigo Most Excellent Wks. Chirurg. i. i. f. 9/2 The gibbosyte or bounch of the liuer.
1597 J. Gerard Herball i. 60 The leauen made of Wheate..openeth all swellings, bunches, tumors and felons.
1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory ii. 86/1 Bunch, or bunched eminencies. are knots in sprouts or shoots above others in the..Lance.
1728 J. Morgan Compl. Hist. Algiers I. iv. 100 The rider sits behind the Bunch or Hump.
1816 P. Keith Syst. Physiol. Bot. II. 378 Bunches..on the branches of the Birch-tree..known..by the name of witches' knots.
1826 J. F. Cooper Last of Mohicans I. i. 10 His nether garment was a yellow nankeen..tied at his bunches of knees by large knots of white ribbon.
1874 2nd Rep. Vermont State Board Agric. 1873–4 428 Their bite is poisonous to a certain extent, as bunches can be felt around their bites.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > animal disease or disorder > disorders of horses > [noun] > other disorders of horses
trench?a1450
colt-evilc1460
affreyd?1523
cholera1566
crick1566
incording1566
leprosy1566
taint1566
eyesore1576
fistula1576
wrench1578
birth1600
garrot1600
stithy1600
stifling1601
stranglings1601
hungry evil1607
pose1607
crest-fall1609
pompardy1627
felteric1639
quick-scab1639
shingles1639
clap1684
sudden taking1688
bunches1706
flanks1706
strangles1706
chest-founderingc1720
body-founder1737
influenza1792
foundering1802
horse-sickness1822
stag-evil1823
strangullion1830
shivering1847
dourine1864
swamp fever1870
African horse sickness1874
horse-pox1884
African horse disease1888
wind-stroke1890
thump1891
leucoencephalitis1909
western equine encephalitis1933
stachybotryotoxicosis1945
rhinopneumonitis1957
1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Bunches, Knobs, Warts and Wens, are Diseases in Horses.
1708 J. Kersey Dict. Anglo-Britannicum Bunches, Knobs, Warts, and Wens, are Diseases in Horses, occasion'd by eating foul Meat, hard Riding, &c.
1721–90 in N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict.
1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. Bunches, in horses called also knobs, warts, and wens, are diseases arising from foul meat, bruises, hard labour, or the like; whereby the blood becoming putrefied and foul, occasions such excrescences.
1775 in J. Ash New Dict. Eng. Lang.
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the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > male > [noun] > body and parts > antler
hornc1000
buck-horn1447
antlet?a1475
antler1603
plant-animal1663
bunch1686
1686 R. Blome Gentlemans Recreation ii. vi. 79 Their [sc. harts'] new Horns at the first come out like Bunches... At one year old they have no Horns, but only Bunches.
d. See quot. 1884.
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the world > physical sensation > use of drugs and poison > tobacco > smoking > articles or materials used in smoking > [noun] > thing which may be smoked > cigar or cheroot > cigar > part of cigar
bunch1884
1884 Pall Mall Gaz. 17 May 4 A cigar consists of three parts, the wrapper, the bunch, and the filler.
a. A bundle (of straw). Obsolete. Also a bundle of reeds, or teasels, containing a definite quantity. dialect.
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the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > harvesting > [noun] > bundle of hay or straw
feald?14..
bottlec1405
bunch?a1505
straw wisp?a1513
stook1571
wad1573
botillage1576
windling1645
pottle1730
bolting1784
strike1817
windle1825
wap1828
hay-pack1841
wake1847
plack1871
tibbin1900
a1505 R. Henryson Test. Cresseid 439 in Poems (1981) 125 For thy bed tak now ane bunche of stro.
1863 J. C. Morton Cycl. Agric. (new ed.) II. (Gloss.) 721/2 Bunch (Camb.), of oziers, a bundle 45 inches round at the band; of reeds, a bundle 28 inches round, formerly an ell. (Ess.) of teazles, 25 heads, otherwise a glean. (Glouc.), of teazles, 20; a glen; of king's teazles, 10. (Yks., N.R.), of teazles, 10.
b. A certain quantity fastened together for sale, as a bundle of flax.
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the world > relative properties > quantity > [noun] > a definite or specified quantity or amount > specific quantities or amounts > quantity tied together
buncha1877
a1877 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. I. Bunch..(Flax-manufacture), three bundles, or 180,000 yards, of linen yarn.
1882 P. Sharp Flax, Tow, & Jute Spinning 145 The bunch generally weighs about 40 lbs., the number of hanks depending on the size of the yarn.
3. A collection or cluster of things of the same kind, either growing together (as a bunch of grapes), or fastened closely together in any way (as a bunch of flowers, a bunch of keys); also a portion of a dress gathered together in irregular folds.
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the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > state of being gathered together > an assemblage or collection > [noun] > bunch
clustera800
bunch1570
1570 P. Levens Manipulus Vocabulorum sig. Piv/1 A Bunche of flowers, floretum.
1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene i. ii. sig. B4v On his crauen crest A bounch of heares discolourd diuersly.
1600 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 2 i. ii. 38 Bunches of keyes at their girdles. View more context for this quotation
a1616 W. Shakespeare Tempest (1623) iv. i. 112 Vines, with clustring bunches growing. View more context for this quotation
1719 D. Defoe Life Robinson Crusoe 243 I gave him..a Bunch of Raisins.
1821 Ld. Byron Jrnl. 27 Feb. in Lett. & Jrnls. (1978) VIII. 50 The old woman..brought me two bunches of violets.
1842 Ld. Tennyson Day-dream in Poems (new ed.) II. 151 Grapes with bunches red as blood.
1873 J. F. W. Herschel Pop. Lect. Sci. iii. §32. 119 That comet..was a mere bunch of vapours.
4. figurative. A collection, ‘lot’. Also, a company or group of persons.
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society > society and the community > social relations > association, fellowship, or companionship > a company or body of persons > [noun]
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peoplec1390
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an abominable of monksa1450
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tribe1609
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lag1624
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platoon1711
cohort1719
lot1725
corps1754
loo1764
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brotherhood1820
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companionship1842
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layout1869
confraternity1872
show1901
crush1904
we1927
familia1933
shower1936
1622 T. Jackson Judah 76 See what persons God hath picked out of all the bunch of the Patriarches, Prophets, Judges, and Kings.
1633 R. Sanderson Serm. II. 39 Though..he do but only name it [charity] in the bunch among other duties.
1687 W. Sherwin in J. R. Bloxham Magdalen Coll. & James II (1886) (modernized text) 79 As very a rascal as any in the Bunch.
a1784 S. Johnson in Boswell Life Johnson (1816) IV. 151 I am glad the Ministry is removed. Such a bunch of imbecility never disgraced a country.
1832 Athenæum No. 243. 355 Two friars are bargaining for a bunch of cherubs.
1840 C. F. Hoffman Greyslaer I. v. 92 You'll find them pretty much here and there, in bunches, helping one another.
a1888 Mod. She's the best of the bunch.
1893 W. S. Gilbert Utopia (Limited) i. 11 Because we are, By furlongs far The best of all the bunch.
1902 A. D. McFaul Ike Glidden in Maine xii. 91 He met a bunch of railroad laborers on their way to their tent.
1909 G. B. Shaw Lett. to Granville Barker (1956) 156 He will be the best of the bunch, like all new converts.
1913 G. Stratton-Porter Laddie (1917) viii. 148 But she said..with the bunch of us to educate yet, we'd need the money.
1936 D. Powell Turn, Magic Wheel i. 37 He liked knowing the ‘Greenwich Village Bunch’.
5. spec.† a. A pack of cards. Obsolete.
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society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > card game > card or cards > [noun] > pack
bunch1563
pack1583
deck1594
1563 J. Foxe Actes & Monuments 1298/1 It wold make vp the beste cote carde beside in the bunche, yea though it were the kyng of Clubbes.
1608 T. Middleton Trick to catch Old-one ii. sig. C The best card in all the bunch.
b. A flock of waterfowl.
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the world > animals > birds > defined by habitat > [noun] > aquatic or swimming bird > flock of
bunch1622
raft1709
sail1727
knob1816
1622 M. Drayton 2nd Pt. Poly-olbion xxv. 106 The lesser dibling Teale In Bunches.
1835 E. Jesse Gleanings Nat. Hist. 3rd Ser. 146 They [ducks] come in what are called bunches..sometimes..150 ducks in a bunch.
c. U.S. A herd of cattle.
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the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > bos taurus or ox > [noun] > herd
herd1577
bunch1884
1884 Harper's Mag. July 294/2 The expence of herding a ‘bunch’ of cattle.
d. bunch of fives: see bunch of fives at five n. 3b.
6. Mining and Geology. A small isolated body of ore, etc. Cf. bunch v.2 1d.
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the world > the earth > minerals > mineral deposits > [noun] > isolated deposit
nest1715
bunch1815
pocket1848
boulder1861
1815 W. Phillips Outl. Mineral. & Geol. (1818) 160 The ores both of copper and tin principally occur in quantities which..occupy..but a small comparative portion of the vein, and are..termed bunches.
1849–50 J. Weale Rudim. Dict. Terms Archit. Bunch, or Squat,..a quantity of ore, of small extent, more than a stone and not so much as a course.
1865 J. T. F. Turner Familiar Descr. Old Delabole Slate Quarries 20 It took seven years to reach a good bunch of slate.
Compounds
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the world > health and disease > ill health > deformity > deformities of specific parts > [noun] > hump back
crooked-rig1382
crouchbackc1491
crook-back?1507
bunch-back1618
crump-backa1661
humpback1697
hunchback1718
huckle-back1762
cyphosis1847
bowbackedness1864
kyphosis-
1618 B. Holyday tr. Juvenal Sat. 191 Virginia would exchange her grace Of shape for Rutila's bunch-back.
1677 W. Charleton Exercitationes de Differrentiis et Nominibus Animalium (ed. 2) 8 The little Scythian Ox with a bunch-back.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > deformity > deformities of specific parts > [adjective] > hump back
hoveredc897
embossedc1430
bow-backed1470
crook-backed1477
courbe-backed1480
bunch-backed1519
hunchbacked1598
buncht-back1603
crouch-backed1606
hulch1611
hulch-backed1611
hulched1611
crouchback1627
camel-backed1631
huck-backed1631
hulchy1632
boss-backed1640
gibbous1646
huckle-backeda1652
hulck-backed1656
hunched1656
crump-backeda1661
humpbacked1681
humped1713
humpback1726
humptya1825
hunchy1841
bible-backed1857
crooked-backed1866
cyphotic1889
1519 W. Horman Vulgaria iii. f. 31 No man shulde rebuke and scorne a blereyied man or gogylyed,..or blaberlypped, or bounche backed.
1650 T. Fuller Pisgah-sight of Palestine iv. vi. 115 Who..affirme all Jews to be crooked, or bunch-backed.
bunch-bean n. U.S. a dwarf kidney bean, also called bush-bean.
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > pulses or plants producing pulses > [noun] > bean > kidney beans or kidney bean plants
French bean1542
kidney bean1548
fasels1562
frijoles1568
Welsh bean1585
longbean1587
cock stone1631
haricot1653
string-bean1759
snap-bean1770
bunch-bean1787
butter bean1820
bush-bean1821
snaps1845
navy bean1851
cannellini1862
flageolet1877
wax bean1905
pinto bean1913
wax-pod bean1921
borlotti1932
1787 G. Washington Diary (1925) III. 212 The bunch Nomeny bean.
1805 R. Parkinson Tour Amer. 341 The bunch-bean..produces abundantly.
1822 J. Woods Eng. Prairie 304 There are some dwarf ones, called bunch-beans.
1847 W. Darlington Agric. Bot. 34 The..Dwarf or Bunch Bean.
bunch-berry n. a berry of the dwarf cornel ( Cornus canadensis), of a bright-red colour when ripe; the shrub bearing this.
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the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > tree or shrub groups > cornus (dogwood and allies) > [noun]
gaiterc1000
dog-tree1548
cornel1551
dogberry1551
prick tree1551
hound's-berry1578
hound's-tree1578
prick-timber tree1578
dwarf honeysuckle1597
dogwood1598
sanguine-rod1601
prickwood1691
bloody twig1759
rose willow1798
red osier1807
swamp dogwood1817
stone-berry?1838
bunch-berry1845
cornus1846
silky cornel1848
silky dogwood1900
pagoda tree1978
1845 S. Judd Margaret i. xiv. 106 She got boxberry flowers and fruit, bunch-berry and star-of-Bethlehem flowers.
1887 Harper's Mag. July 303/1 The bunchberry made mounds of creamy bloom at the roots of ancient trees.
1895 Cent. Mag. July 328/2 A wild-wood garniture of ‘bunch-berries’ and moss.
1969 Islander (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 31 Aug. 11/1 The bunch-berries, I thought, were loveliest of all.
bunch flower n. a liliaceous plant of North America, Melanthium virginicum.
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > particular flower or plant esteemed for flower > [noun] > lily and allied flowers > allied flowers
dog's tooth1578
daylily1597
mountain saffron1597
phalangium1608
Savoy spiderwort1629
hemerocallis1648
tuberose1664
St Bruno's lily1706
superb lily1731
agapanthus1789
Spanish squill1790
erythronium1797
Tritoma1804
Spanish harebell1808
veltheimia1808
adder's tongue1817
bunch flower1818
Puschkinia1820
hedychium1822
eremurus1836
flame lily1841
lily pink1848
mountain spiderwort1849
lloydia1850
kniphofia1854
garland-flower1866
red-hot poker1870
swamp-lover1878
African lily1882
flame-flower1882
Scarborough lily1882
wood-lily1882
St. Bernard lily1883
torch-lily1884
rajanigandha1885
ginger lily1892
chinkerinchee1904
snow lily1907
sand lily1909
avalanche lily1912
Spanish bluebell1924
mountain lily1932
chink1949
poker1975
1818 A. Eaton Man. Bot. (ed. 2) ii. 316 Melanthium..racemosum..bunch flower.
1899 T. W. Sanders Encycl. Gardening (ed. 3) Melanthium (American Bunch-flower).
bunch-grass n. Festuca scabrella, of North America; any of various grasses, chiefly of western North America, characterized by growing in clumps.
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the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > a grass or grasses > [noun] > fescue grasses
fescue1762
float-fescue1762
sheep's fescue1762
reed fescue1830
bunch-grass1837
rat's tail fescue1858
capon's-tail grass-
the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > a grass or grasses > non-British grasses > [noun] > North American
salt grass1704
wiregrass1751
Indian grass1765
buffalo grass1784
blue-eyed grass1785
mountain rice1790
nimble Will1816
yard-grass1822
mesquite1831
poverty-grass1832
tickle-moth1833
bunch-grass1837
naked-beard grass1848
needle grass1848
Means grass1858
toothache-grass1860
Johnson grass1873
Indian rice grass1893
nigger babies1897
St. Augustine grass1905
pinyon ricegrass1935
1837 W. Irving Adventures Capt. Bonneville I. xii. 203 The upland bunch grass..retained its nutritious properties..in the autumn.
1845 J. C. Frémont Exped. 160 A valuable nutritious grass, called bunch grass, from the form in which it grows, which has a second growth in the fall.
1866 Intellectual Observer No. 53. 324 Thickly clothed with bunch-grass.
1872 Congress. Globe Jan. 660/2 The vegetation..is principally sage-brush, interspersed with bunch-grass.
1878 J. H. Beadle Western Wilds viii. 125 One may ride all day through good bunch-grass pasture.
1891 M. E. Ryan Told in Hills ii. ii. 32 Where the ‘bunch-grass’ of the grazing levels bends even now under a chance wild stallion.
1899 Scribner's Mag. 25 114/1 I have never seen such luxuriant grass anywhere... It is of the bunch-grass variety.
1959 A. H. McLintock Descr. Atlas N.Z. 24 Tussock (bunch grass) grasslands, generally with species of Poa and Festuca dominant.
bunch greens n. greens sold by the bunch.
bunch-knot n. a knot joining broken ends of yarn.
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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > thread or yarn > [noun] > knot joining broken ends of
bunch-knot1884
1884 W. S. B. McLaren Spinning Woollen & Worsted xi. 238 When one end of yarn breaks or runs out, the other must be broken too, and what is called a bunch-knot tied.
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1797 Encycl. Brit. X. 400/2 The commodity, when manufactured, is distinguished into different kinds, as grape-madder, bunch-madder, &c. The grape-madder is the heart of the root.
bunch-oyster n. a wild oyster which grows in clusters.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > class Pelecypoda or Conchifera > [noun] > section Asiphonida > family Ostreidae > member of (oyster) > that grows in particular place or way
rock oyster1634
tree-oyster1768
bunch-oyster1881
1881 E. Ingersoll Oyster-industry (10th Census U.S.: Bureau of Fisheries) 242 Bunch oysters, those growing in clusters (South).
bunch pink n. a name for the sweet-william.
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > particular flower or plant esteemed for flower > [noun] > pinks or carnations
gillyflower1517
carnation1538
clove gillyflower1538
incarnation1538
William1538
pink1566
John1572
Indian eye1573
sops-in-wine1573
sweet John1573
sweet-william1573
tuft gillyflower1573
Colmenier1578
small honesty1578
tol-me-neer1578
London tuft1597
maidenly pink1597
mountain pink1597
clove-carnation1605
musk-gillyflower1607
London pride1629
pride of London1629
maiden pink1650
Indian pink1664
Spanish pink1664
pheasant's eye pink1718
flake1727
flame1727
picotee1727
old man's head1731
painted lady1731
piquet1731
China-pink1736
clove1746
wild pink1753
lime-wort1777
matted thrift1792
clove-pink1837
Cheddar Pink1843
Dianthus1849
bunch pink1857
perpetual-flowering carnation1861
cliff pink1863
meadow pink1866
musk carnation1866
Jack1873
wax-pink1891
Malmaison1892
grenadin1904
1857 A. Gray First Lessons Bot. 54 Sweet William or Bunch Pink.
1877 4th Rep. Vermont State Board Agric. 1876–7 99 Bunch pinks and candytufts coming from self-sown seeds.
bunch whale n.
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1726 P. Dudley in Philos. Trans. 1725 (Royal Soc.) 33 258 The Bunch or humpback Whale.
bunch-word n. rare a word formed by agglutination.
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the mind > language > linguistics > study of grammar > morphology > word-formation > [noun] > compounding > agglutination > word formed by
bunch-word1862
1862 D. Wilson Prehistoric Man II. xix. 136 Like the bunch-words, as they have been called, of the American languages, compounded of a number of parts.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1888; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
† bunchn.2
Obsolete.
A punch, a thump.
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the world > movement > impact > striking > striking with specific thing > [noun] > with the hand > with the fist
bobeta1400
bobettingc1440
boba1568
nevel1568
fisticuffs1600
bunch1642
condyle1644
poke1690
punch1766
fist1767
plug1798
chuckera1805
polthogue1808
fistera1834
jab1889
bust1893
1642 D. Rogers Naaman 193 The Angell gave him [Peter] a bunch on the to-side.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1888; most recently modified version published online March 2021).
† bunchv.1
/bʌnʃ/ Obsolete exc. dialect.
a. transitive. To strike, thump; to bruise flax, etc., by beating it.
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the world > movement > impact > striking > striking with specific degree of force > strike with specific degree of force [verb (transitive)] > strike heavily
cloutc1330
bunch1362
sousec1520
blad1524
dauda1572
bum1581
bump1611
bash1833
twat1974
the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > treating or processing textile materials > treating or processing flax, hemp, or jute > treat or process flax, hemp, or jute [verb (transitive)] > beat
swinglec1325
braya1398
riba1398
shive1483
bunch1601
tewtaw1601
rough-dress1622
towtaw1652
scutch1733
1362 W. Langland Piers Plowman A. Prol. 71 He bonchede [v.r. bunched] hem with his Breuet.
c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 55 Bunchon', tundo.
1496 (c1410) Dives & Pauper (de Worde) i. iii. 34/2 Men..bounche or knocke theyr brestis.
1577 W. Harrison Descr. Eng. (1877) i. ii. vi. 147 A fall..might peradventure bunch or batter it.
1601 W. Cornwallis Disc. Seneca sig. G2v I wil reele and bunch hempe.
1671 tr. A. Charant Let. conc. Countrys King of Tafiletta 49 in tr. R. Fréjus Relation Voy. Mauritania These golden Apples, especially the biggest, bunched in several places with the blows of Musket bullets.
a1855 W. T. Spurdens Forby's Vocab. E. Anglia (1858) III. 7 Bunch, a process employed upon hemp, i.e. beating it with a beetle.
1877 E. Peacock Gloss. Words Manley & Corringham, Lincs. Cauves bunch their mother's bags as soon as they can stan'.
b. To kick. (Yorkshire, Lincolnshire, etc.)
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the world > movement > impact > striking > striking with specific thing > strike with specific thing [verb (transitive)] > with the foot > kick
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1647 Depos. Castle of York 10 in E. Peacock Gloss. Words Manley & Corringham, Lincs. (E.D.S.) He actually saw him bunching an old man.
1665 R. Sellar in Abstr. Quakers' Sufferings (1738) iii. 176 They bunched me with their Feet that I fell backwards into a Tub.
1825 Gentleman's Mag. 91 i. 397.
1864 J. C. Atkinson Whitby Gloss. He bunch'd me.
Derivatives
bunchclot n. a farmer; a clodhopper.
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1877 F. Ross et al. Gloss. Words Holderness (E.D.S.)
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bunchv.2
/bʌn(t)ʃ/, U.S. /bən(t)ʃ/Thesaurus »
a. To bulge (out), protrude, stick out.
b. To form bunches or clusters. Obsolete.
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the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > state of being gathered together > gather together [verb (intransitive)] > form bunches
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1495 Trevisa's Bartholomeus De Proprietatibus Rerum (de Worde) xviii. xxi. sig. bbiijv/2 The Camelion is a beest lyke to the Ewte in body... And his rydgebonys bonchyth [a1398 BL Add. strouteþ] vpwarde as it were a fysshe.
1572 J. Bossewell Wks. Armorie ii. f. 52v Hys [the Cameleon's]..ridge bones bounche upward.
1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. xvi. xxxiv Big berries growing thick together, and bunching round in manner of grapes.
1603 P. Holland tr. Plutarch Morals 1021 Of the round line that part which is..without doth bumpe and bunch.
1622 J. Mabbe tr. M. Alemán Rogue ii. 342 Which made the wheales to bunch out vpon their backs.
1638 A. Read Treat. 1st Pt. Chirurg. xxiii. 167 If the eyes of the patient..bunch out.
a1728 J. Woodward Attempt Nat. Hist. Fossils Eng. (1729) i. 144 Bunching out into a large round knob.
1806 J. Beresford Miseries Human Life I. iii. 50 Winding up a top badly grooved, so that the string bunches down over the peg.
c. To crowd together in a body. Also with up.
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the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > state of being gathered together > gather together [verb (intransitive)] > cluster
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1873 J. H. Beadle Undeveloped West 60 Buffalo grass and gama grass..show a tendency to bunch together, leaving large portions of the surface bare.
1887 F. Francis Saddle & Mocassin vii. 124 They had got scared, and had bunched up like a bevy of quail.
1888 Cent. Mag. Jan. 455 By the time the dumbfounded brutes had ‘bunched’,..we were right in among them.
1909 Westm. Gaz. 23 Dec. 12/3 The result..is to force the opposing defences back to their own goal and so bunch.
1924 J. Galsworthy White Monkey i. ii The really big people don't talk—and don't bunch—they paddle their own canoes in what seem backwaters.
1959 I. Opie & P. Opie Lore & Lang. Schoolchildren xii. 269 Guisers usually ‘bunch up in groups of three or four’.
d. Mining. Of a vein or lode of ore: to form an irregular mass. Cf. bunch n.1 6.
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the world > the earth > minerals > mineral deposits > [verb (intransitive)] > form irregular mass
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1883 S. Baring-Gould John Herring III. xlviii. 102 The vein ‘bunched’, and the bunch of nearly pure metal was before him.
1889 Temple Bar LXXXV. 26 The lode ran under Orleigh gardens and promised freely to ‘bunch’ under the mansion.
e. To push in among a number.
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1902 H. L. Wilson Spenders ix. 86 They..came down the stairs and I bunched into the crowd and let myself ooze out with them.
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a. transitive. To make into a bunch; to gather (a dress) into folds; to group (animals) (U.S.). Also absol. (see quot. 1887). Also with up.
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the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > state of being gathered together > gather together [verb (transitive)] > make into a bunch
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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > animal keeping practices general > herding, pasturing, or confining > [verb (transitive)] > herd > herd or drive together
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > tailoring or making clothes > tailor or make clothes [verb (transitive)] > gather
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1828 N. Webster Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang. Bunch, v.t., to form or tie in a bunch or bunches.
1869 A. K. McClure 3,000 Miles through Rocky Mts. 99 The horses..have been ‘bunched’ at either end of the hostile country.
1873 ‘M. Twain’ & C. D. Warner Gilded Age i. 21 The speaker bunched his thick lips together like the stem-end of a tomato.
1881 Chicago Times 16 Apr. When trees are bunched together..they are scrubs.
1883 Chambers's Jrnl. 690 Her hair rudely bunched into an uncomely heap.
1883 Cassell's Family Mag. Aug. 561 Gathering and ‘bunching’ flowers.
1884 Bazaar, Exchange & Mart 22 Dec. 664/2 An over-dress of chintz, much bunched up on hips and at back.
1885 Milnor (Dakota Territory) Free Press 18 Aug. 3/5 They [hogs] stand bunched around at the root of the tree.
1887 Overland Monthly (Farmer) Two men often bunch on the march, i.e. unite their herds for convenience in driving.
1893 G. B. Shaw Let. 27 Apr. (1965) I. 392 The way you..bunch up your back.
b. In technical use (see quots.). In Baseball, to secure (hits) in close succession. Chiefly U.S.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > baseball > play baseball [verb (transitive)] > actions of batter
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to wait out1909
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the world > food and drink > farming > forestry or arboriculture > lumbering > [verb (transitive)] > pile up logs for transport
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > baseball > play baseball [verb (transitive)] > actions of batter > in target practice
bunch1909
1883 Chicago Tribune 3 July 6/5 Detroit played a wretched muffing game today and failed to bunch hits.
1889 Cent. Dict. s.v. To bunch the hits in a game of baseball.
1905 Terms Forestry & Logging (Bull. U.S. Dept. Agric., Bureau Forestry, No. 61) 32 To bunch load, to encircle several logs with a chain and load them at once, by steam or horse~power. To bunch logs, to collect logs in one place for loading.
1909 Webster's New Internat. Dict. Eng. Lang. (at cited word) To bunch..shots (in target practice).
3. To present (a woman) with a bunch of flowers. Also transferred.
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the mind > possession > giving > give [verb (transitive)] > present > present with other specific thing
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1901 Daily Chron. 7 Dec. 8/3 The King's gift of a bouquet to Miss Brodrick upon her wedding morning, it is hoped will revive the charming old fashion of ‘bunching’ young beauties, a very modish practice, that only languished a few years ago.
1959 N. Marsh Singing in Shrouds iv. 59 Captain Bannerman felt that in a way he would be bunching Mrs. Dillington-Blick by presenting her with a No. I Personality.
1961 G. Egmont Art of Egmontese v. 99 Send flowers next day with a brief thank-you note. The older the hostess, the more she will like being ‘bunched’.
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