bundlen.
/ˈbʌnd(ə)l/ΘΚΠ
the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > fastening > binding or tying > a bond, tie, or fastening > [noun] > a band or binding
bindinga1300
gird13..
bandc1325
bundlea1382
bonda1400
bracer1579
binder1695
a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(1)) (1850) Jer. ii. 32 Whether forȝete shal..the womman spouse of hir brest bundel [a1425 L.V. brest girdil, Coverd. stomacher; L. fasciae pectoralis]?
2.
a. A collection of things bound or otherwise fastened together; a bunch; a package, parcel.In some spec. uses now superseded by bunch; e.g. we no longer speak of ‘a bundle of keys, of flowers’; but we still say ‘a bundle of sticks’, etc., not ‘a bunch’. The most frequent application of the word, when not followed by of, is to denote a package tied up in a piece of cloth.
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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] > bundle
sheafc725
handfulOE
truss12..
knitch13..
binding1388
bundle1398
faggot1447
bond1483
flaggat1487
bend-fulc1500
litch1538
thrave1606
fascicle1622
fawda1642
nitch1726
fascine1793
fasciculus1816
1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum xvii. xcvii [Flax] bounde in praty nytches & boundel.
a1425 (c1395) Bible (Wycliffite, L.V.) (Royal) (1850) Song of Sol. i. 12 My derlyng is a bundel of myrre to me.
c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 55 Bundelle, fasciculus.
1474 W. Caxton tr. Game & Playe of Chesse (1883) iii. vi. 128 On his gurdell hangynge a boudell of keyes.
1534 T. More Treat. Passion in Wks. (1557) 1297/1 A boundell of the lowe growing herbe of Ysope.
1584 J. Dee Jrnl. in True & Faithful Relation Spirits (1659) i. 133 He appeareth now all in violet Silk like a Cloke, and on his head a bundel wreathed of the same.
a1610 J. Healey tr. Theophrastus Characters 26 in tr. Epictetus Manuall (1636) In his hand a bundle of papers.
?1716 A. Pope Let. in Lady M. W. Montagu Lett. & Wks. (1837) I. 329 How may I send a large bundle to you?
1747 H. Glasse Art of Cookery ii. 29 Put in some good Broth or Gravy, and a Bundle of Sweet Herbs.
1801 M. Edgeworth Forester in Moral Tales I. 78 Tied up a..bundle of linen.
1831 D. Brewster Treat. Optics xx. 181 A bundle of glass plates.
b. Animal Physiology. A set of muscular or nervous fibres bound closely together. fibro-vascular (or vascular) bundle (Plant Physiology): one of the collections of fibres, vessels, and cells, which constitute the fibro-vascular tissue.
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the world > life > the body > bodily substance > fibre > [noun] > bundle of
bundle1732
the world > plants > part of plant > cell or aggregate tissue > [noun] > tissue > vascular bundle
bundle1884
bundle-ring1884
trace-bundle1884
1732 J. Arbuthnot Pract. Rules of Diet ii. 283 The bundle of Fibres which constitute the Muscle may be small.
1802 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 8 368 The Mollusca..have all the remainder of the common bundle of nerves..contained in the same cavity with the other viscera.
1866 T. H. Huxley Lessons Elem. Physiol. (1869) xi. 4 Delicate bundles of nervous filaments, the roots of the spinal nerves.
1884 F. O. Bower & D. H. Scott tr. H. A. de Bary Compar. Anat. Phanerogams & Ferns 232.
c. Law, in plural (see quots.).
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society > law > administration of justice > court papers > [noun] > records of court proceedings
recordc1400
sheriff roll1534
postea1587
iter1598
bundle1678
office copy1776
1678 E. Phillips New World of Words (new ed.) Bundles, a sort of Records of Chancery, lying in the office of the Rolls; as, the Files of Bills, and Answers in Chancery, the Files of Corpus cum Causa, all writs of Certiorari, with their Certificates, and divers others.
1708 J. Kersey Dict. Anglo-Britannicum (at cited word) In Law, Bundles are a sort of Records of Chancery, lying in the Office of the Rolls.
1721–90 in N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict.
d. Twenty hanks, or 60,000 yards, of linen yarn.
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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > thread or yarn > [noun] > made from flax, hemp, or jute > linen > specific quantity of
heer1774
bundle1875
1875 R. Hunt & F. W. Rudler Ure's Dict. Arts (ed. 7) II. 450 These packages..consist of from quarter of a bundle to five or six bundles.
e. Ironwork. A ‘faggot’ of iron or steel rods for welding together and working into a mass of greater toughness.
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society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > metal > metal in specific state or form > [noun] > metal in the form of rods > bundle of
garbc1436
faggot1540
bundle1831
1831 J. Holland Treat. Manuf. Metal I. 98 The whole mass was bound together by collars driven on tight, or by strips of iron wrapped firmly about the bundle. Several of these faggots being thus prepared, were placed in a furnace and brought to a welding heat.
f. Two reams of printing or brown paper, a quantity fixed by statute.
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society > communication > printing > paper > [noun] > specific quantity of
quatern?1533
ternion1609
quaternion1625
quinternion1652
bundle1724
ream1832
quinion1872
quire1879
sextern1885
1724 Act 11 Geo. I. c. 7 p. 367/1 Brown Paper, the Bundle containing 40 Quire..3s. 4d.
g. dialect or slang. A woman, esp. a fat one. Cf. baggage n. 6, 7.
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the world > life > the body > bodily shape or physique > broad shape or physique > [noun] > fat or plump shape or physique > person having > woman
roil1533
boss1578
blowze1594
fustilarian1600
fustilugs1607
tub-woman1660
fuss1670
fussock1699
bundlea1825
a1825 R. Forby Vocab. E. Anglia (1830) Bundle, an opprobrious term applied to females, equivalent to baggage, which perhaps means strictly, a follower of the camp.
a1841 T. Sharp Select. Gloss. Provinc. Words Warwickshire (1865) Bundle, a large fat woman.
1922 J. Joyce Ulysses iii. xviii. [Penelope] 719 The ironmould mark the stupid old bundle burned on them.
h. (See quot. 1922.) So in to go a (or the) bundle on: to bet much money on; figurative to be very fond of. slang (originally U.S.).
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society > trade and finance > money > sum of money > [noun] > large sum
pounda1225
ransom?a1300
fother14..
gob1542
mint1579
king's ransomc1590
abomination1604
coda1680
a pretty (also fine, fair, etc.) penny1710
plunk1767
big money1824
pot1856
big one?1863
a small fortune1874
four figures1893
poultice1902
parcel1903
bundle1905
pretty1909
real money1918
stack1919
packet1922
heavy sugar1926
motza1936
big bucks1941
bomb1958
wedge1977
megadollars1980
squillion1986
bank1995
society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > betting > bet on [verb (transitive)]
back1697
to put one's money on1847
to put one's shirt on1856
play1858
lump1864
lay1877
stand1877
to get on ——1884
to bet (also stake) one's shirt (that)1892
to go a (or the) bundle on1938
the mind > emotion > love > [verb (transitive)] > be very fond of
to go a (or the) bundle on1942
1899 ‘J. Flynt’ Tramping with Tramps (1900) iv. 392 Bundle, plunder from a robbery.]
1905 ‘H. McHugh’ You can search Me 15 Did they sting you for the whole bundle?
1922 Notes & Queries 12th Ser. 11 206/2 Packet, parcel, and bundle, a considerable sum of money. To say a person ‘won a packet’, &c., or ‘had a parcel (or bundle) on a horse’, infers that a considerabale sum has been won or laid.
1938 D. Runyon Take it Easy ii. 45 So he goes for his entire bundle on Apparition.
1942 H. C. Bailey Dead Man's Shoes xxx. 116 Brewing black, pungent liquor, Bryony said he went the bundle on tea himself.
1957 P. Wildeblood Main Chance xi. 197 ‘I go a bundle on you,’ he said.
1968 A. Diment Bang Bang Birds i. v. 60 I don't go a bundle on being told I'm a pro.
1969 Northern Territory News 11 July 18/2 [Dog Racing] Brindle Louvre..backed for bundles.
i. bundle of ten: a collection of articles consisting of a set of ten.
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1925 E. Fraser & J. Gibbons Soldier & Sailor Words Bundle of ten, a packet of ten cigarettes. The tens of various suits in a pack of cards. Also, Army blankets, always rolled in tens.
j. slang. A fight or scrap.
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society > society and the community > dissent > fighting > [noun] > a fight
bicker1297
fightc1300
tirpeilc1330
ragea1393
stradec1400
intermell1489
cockfighta1513
skirm1534
bustle1579
pell-mellc1586
brabble1587
jostle1607
scufflea1616
counterbuff1632
mêléea1648
roil1690
tussle1749
scrimmage1780
turn-up1810
scrape1812
pounding match1815
mellay1819
struggle1840
mix-up1841
scrap1846
rough-up1891
turn-to1893
push and shove1895
bagarre1897
stoush1908
dogfight1910
bundle1936
sort-out1937
yike1940
bassa-bassa1956
punch-up1958
thump-up1967
1936 ‘J. Curtis’ Gilt Kid xii. 124 If there was going to be a bundle, he was not going to be bashed sitting down.
1963 ‘A. Garve’ Sea Monks iii. 88 None o'them ain't goin' to start a bundle if he knows his mate's goin' to get shot for it.
3.
a. figurative. A collection, ‘lot’ (of things material or immaterial); usually either with contemptuous implication, or with allusion to a figurative ‘tying together’. † to be bound in the bundle of life (a Hebraism derived from the Bible): to be foreordained to continued life.
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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]
queleta1382
congregationc1384
numberc1400
hirselc1425
company1439
assemblement1470
bundle1535
sort1563
raccolta1591
bevy1604
crew1607
congest1625
concoursea1628
nest1630
comportation1633
racemationa1641
assembly1642
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assemblage1690
faggot1742
museum1755
pash1790
shock1806
consortium1964
1535 Bible (Coverdale) 1 Sam. xxv. 29 Then shal the soule of my lorde be bounde in the bundell of ye lyuynge [1611 bound in the bundle of life] euen with the Lorde thy God.
1564 E. Grindal Remains (1843) (modernized text) 11 A bundle of the principal nobility of the christian world.
1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica i. ii. 6 A bundle of calumnies.
a1774 A. Tucker Light of Nature Pursued (1777) III. ii. 57 A bundle of superstitions, absurdities, tyranny, and priestcraft.
1785 T. Reid Ess. Intellect. Powers 186 A bundle of sensations.
1863 E. V. Neale Analogy Thought & Nature 40 The thought of any object is not that of a mere bundle of qualities.
1864 J. H. Burton Scot Abroad I. i. 25 The King and Queen of France, the King of Navarre, and the royal dukes in a bundle.
b. to drop one's bundle: to give up hope, surrender, resist or compete no further. Australian and New Zealand slang.
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the mind > will > decision > irresolution or vacillation > be irresolute or vacillate [verb (intransitive)] > give way or give in
benda1400
sink?a1513
to give over1530
to cry creak?1562
yield1576
to hold up1596
succumb1604
to give in1616
to hoist, lower, strike the topsaila1629
to cry cravena1634
to give up or cross the cudgels1654
incumb1656
to fall in1667
to knock under1670
to knock under board, under (the) table1692
to strike underc1730
knuckle down1735
to throw (also chuck) up the sponge1860
chuck up (the sponge)1864
to throw in one's hand1893
to sky the wipe (or towel)1907
to drop one's bundle1915
to throw (chuck, or toss) in the towel1915
to buckle up1927
1915 C. J. Dennis Songs Sentimental Bloke (1916) 119 To drop the bundle, to surrender; to give up hope.
1928 Bulletin (Sydney) 7 Mar. 39/1 'E [a dog] wouldn't chase the 'are. 'E dropped 'is bundle.
1947 P. Newton Wayleggo (1949) x. 115 My confidence immediately disappeared. However, I could not ‘drop my bundle’, so into the jungle I went.
c. Colloquial phrase (to be) a bundle of nerves: (see quot. 1940). (Cf. quot. 1802 at sense 2b).
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the mind > emotion > fear > nervousness or uneasiness > be nervous or uneasy [verb (intransitive)] > show signs of nervousness > (be) in an extremely nervous condition
(to be) a bundle of nerves1940
1940 E. Partridge Dict. Clichés 35 Bundle of nerves, to be a, to be in an extremely nervous condition; to start at every noise, show irritation at every mishap or hindrance and fear at every alarm.
1946 F. Sargeson That Summer 110 I was just a bundle of nerves.
1965 J. Fleming Nothing is Number ii. viii. 116 I am haunted, shadowed. ‘A bundle of nerves’ is the English idiom, is it not?
Compounds
C1. General attributive.
bundle handkerchief n.
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society > travel > aspects of travel > a journey > [noun] > luggage > used by pilgrims, beggars, etc.
scripc1300
shripc1300
walletc1405
sherpe1426
wantel1536
bundle handkerchief1884
turkey1893
bindle1925
1884 Pall Mall Gaz. 11 Sept. 4/2 Crowds..with huge carpet bags, tin boxes and bundle handkerchiefs.
C2.
bundle-man n. Nautical slang a married seaman (see quot. 1925).
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society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > married person > married man > [noun] > seaman
bundle-man1895
1895 United Service Mag. 518 If one of the officers is on the sick list it is well to have a spare room in the bundle-man's house.
1925 E. Fraser & J. Gibbons Soldier & Sailor Words 39 Bundle-man, a, a Lower Deck phrase for a married man, apparently suggested by the small bundle tied up with a blue handkerchief which married seamen..usually take ashore with them when going on leave.
1927 Blackwood Mag. June 712/1 Many of my messmates were ‘bundle-men’, and were busy arranging passages for their families to Malta.
bundle pillar n. (see quot.).
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > architecture > pillar > [noun] > others
respoun1428
respond1448
twisted pillar1717
drum1805
responder1822
bundle pillar1842
Osiride pillar1850
trumeau1890
1842 J. Gwilt Encycl. Archit. Gloss. 940 Bundle Pillar, in Gothic architecture, a column consisting of a number of small pillars round its circumference.
bundle-ring n. ring of fibro-vascular bundles.
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the world > plants > part of plant > cell or aggregate tissue > [noun] > tissue > vascular bundle
bundle1884
bundle-ring1884
trace-bundle1884
1884 F. O. Bower & D. H. Scott tr. H. A. de Bary Compar. Anat. Phanerogams & Ferns 258 In the internode of Nepenthes there is found an inner typical bundle-ring.
bundle-sheath n. the sheath investing each fibro-vascular bundle, the endodermis.
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the world > plants > part of plant > cell or aggregate tissue > [noun] > tissue > endodermis, pericycle, or exodermis
pericambium1875
bundle-sheath1882
bundle-system1884
exodermis1889
pericycle1890
1882 S. H. Vines tr. J. von Sachs Text-bk. Bot. (ed. 2) 123 Masses of tissue accompany the separate fibro-vascular bundles as..envelopes or sheaths; these I term generally Bundle-sheaths.
bundle-system n.
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the world > plants > part of plant > cell or aggregate tissue > [noun] > tissue > endodermis, pericycle, or exodermis
pericambium1875
bundle-sheath1882
bundle-system1884
exodermis1889
pericycle1890
1884 F. O. Bower & D. H. Scott tr. H. A. de Bary Compar. Anat. Phanerogams & Ferns 248 A..number of Dicotyledons..differ in their bundle-system from that which characterises their allies.
bundle-tube n.
bundle-wood n. firewood made up into bundles.
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society > occupation and work > materials > fuel > wood as fuel > [noun] > a pile, stack, or bundle
faggotc1312
kida1350
faggald1488
bavin1528
woodpile1552
fire pile1577
brush-faggot1606
stalder1611
figate1645
kid-stack1653
stack-wood1664
brush1699
bavin-band1725
pimpa1731
bavin-stack1759
bundle-wood1879
wood-heap1943
1879 Good Words 20 781/1 These great yards are the storage ground of the ‘bundle’ fire-wood trade.
1879 Good Words 20 781/2 The bundle wood coming into his own household.
bundle-yarn n. yarn made up in bundles (see sense 2d).
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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > thread or yarn > [noun] > that has undergone other process of manufacture
sister's thread1572
bundle-yarn1883
tube yarn1891
1883 Daily News 3 Oct. 2/6 The market for bundle yarns.
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bundle of joy n. colloquial (originally U.S.) a baby.
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the world > people > person > baby or infant > [noun]
childOE
baban?c1225
fauntekin1377
infant1382
babea1393
fauntelet1393
babyc1400
lakinc1440
mop1440
chrisomer1574
tenderling1587
chrisom1596
childling1648
flosculet1648
bratling1652
lullaby-cheat1665
strangera1674
child (also infant, baby) in armsa1675
hoppet1695
tot1725
bambino1761
weanie1786
tiny1797
dot1800
trudgeon1814
toddle1825
toddles1828
yearnling1829
dab1833
toddler1837
baba1841
arrival1846
teeny-tiny1849
toddlekins1852
mite1853
trot1854
babelet1856
nestler1866
spoon-child1868
bubby1885
chavvy1886
bub1889
kiddy1889
toddleskin1890
newborn1893
kidlet1899
kidling1899
bubba1906
bundle of joy1924
liddly1929
mammet1932
snork1941
kiddywink1957
sproglet1987
1924 Oakland (Calif.) Tribune 30 Jan. My husband..finally consented and now we have our little bundle of joy.
1940 Charleston (W. Va.) Gaz. 19 Oct. 12/1 [They] are expecting a bundle of joy.
2006 Daily Post (Liverpool) (Nexis) 17 Jan. The blue-eyed bundle of joy that sits beside her..is nine months old.
Draft additions March 2019
bundle buggy n. North American a bag or basket on wheels for carrying shopping; spec. (in later use, chiefly Canadian) a large shopping bag set on a (collapsible) two-wheeled frame; cf. buggy n.1 5.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > receptacle or container > bag > [noun] > shopping-bag > on wheeled frame
buggy1940
bundle buggy1942
shopping trolley1951
1942 N.Y. Times 3 Aug. 11/1 For the harried, automobileless housewife there was a ‘Bundle Buggy’ for bringing home the groceries.
1975 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 3 July f4/3 They're seen pulling bundle-buggies to and from the supermarket or the coin laundry.
2009 J. Cowan Earthgirl i. 14 An older woman dragging a grocery-stuffed bundle buggy.
Draft additions March 2019
A set of commercial products or services offered together at an all-inclusive price, typically with a discount; esp. a set of computer software or hardware, or of telecommunication services, sold in this way.
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1969 Datamation May 243 The earlier unit..sold for $2000, with options of unattended operation..and a reusable magnetic tape cartridge... Now, the model 3 sports all of these features in one bundle.
1988 Pension World Aug. 39/1 Go to a single provider, usually a bank, insurance company or mutual fund, and buy a complete ‘bundle’ of services.
1999 Computer Dealer News 13 Aug. 37/4 To further emphasize the fact that ATI designed this card for gamers, the software bundle consists of Expendable (lite version), Half-Life Day One and Moto Racer II.
2008 Daily Gleaner (Kingston, Jamaica) 22 May 7/2 C&WJ's cheapest bundle..allows 200 minutes of on-network calls,..40 minutes of international calls..plus 40 text messages.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1888; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
bundlev.
1.
a. transitive. To tie in, or make up into, a bundle.
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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 bundle
bindc1000
trussc1300
kid1504
faggot1582
bundlec1649
c1649 Acct. Apparitions at Woodstock in W. Hone Every-day Bk. (1827) II. 584 The..oak..they had..bundled up into faggots.
1757 E. W. Montagu Let. 4 Jan. (1967) III. 118 I bundle up all your letters.
1785 W. Cowper Task iv. 668 Flow'rs..bundled close to fill some crowded vase.
1828 H. Steuart Planter's Guide 249 Care must be taken to bundle up all the flexible parts of the roots.
1833 M. Scott Tom Cringle's Log I. x. 286 The cape..was rather bundled..into a round heap.
1862 C. M. Yonge Countess Kate vi. 105 She..bundled up her hair as best she might.
b. To ‘faggot’ bar iron for the purpose of welding it together.
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society > occupation and work > industry > working with specific materials > working with metal > work with metal [verb (transitive)] > make into faggots
faggot1727
bundle1831
1831 J. Holland Treat. Manuf. Metal I. 98 To cause bar iron..to be closely fagotted or bundled together.
c. To wrap in warm, heavy, or cumbersome clothing, etc. Usually in passive and with up.
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the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > covering > wrapping > wrap [verb (transitive)] > in a clumsy or cumbersome way
fumble1575
bundle1893
1893 I. K. Funk et al. Standard Dict. Eng. Lang. I
1923 R. Macaulay Told by Idiot ii. vi. 85 The two children were bundled up in bear-skin coats.
1949 N. Mitford Love in Cold Climate i. xiii. 135 Lady Montdore was hardly visible, bundled up in her corner.
1957 E. Eager Magic by Lake iv. 85 The four children found themselves seated in the middle of it, suitably bundled up and befurred.
1967 W. Styron Confessions Nat Turner i. 32 Men and women bundled against the cold had commenced to hurry up the road.
1976 A. Haley Roots (1977) cii. 548 He saw the usually bedridden Uncle Pompey sitting outside his cabin in an old cane chair, bundled in a heavy quilt.
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the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > state of being gathered together > gather together [verb (transitive)] > gather in one mass or form lumps
wholec1443
consolidate1511
clod1530
thicken?1578
contract1620
acervate1623
lump1624
bundlea1628
club1641
to lump together (occasionally up)1692
commassate1694
slump1822
pack1824
a1628 F. Greville Life of Sidney (1651) xvii. 235 The former recited particulars, howsoever improperly..bundled up together.
1633 Bp. J. Hall Plaine Explic. Hard Texts i. 541 I have bundled up all his sinnes together..for a meet day of punishment.
1690 J. Locke Ess. Humane Understanding iii. v. 206 Under one Term, bundle together a great variety of..Ideas.
3. intransitive. To pack up one's effects in preparation for a journey; hence, to go with all one's luggage or incumbrances. Of a number of persons: To go precipitately and in disorder, ‘all in a bundle’ (cf. 4): chiefly with in, off, out; also used with singular subject and in extended use.
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the world > movement > rate of motion > swiftness > swift movement in specific manner > move swiftly in specific manner [verb (intransitive)] > move with urgent speed > go in disorderly haste
tumble1590
cuffle1596
bundle1787
scuffle1838
1787 R. Burns Prose Wks. 25 The devil's bagpiper will touch him off ‘Bundle and go!’
1802 G. Colman Poor Gentleman (new ed.) v. ii. 76 Is your ladyship's honour bundling off, then?
1844 A. W. Kinglake Eothen xviii. 281 He made both his wives bundle out.
1847 J. O. Halliwell Dict. Archaic & Provinc. Words I Bundle...To set off in a hurry.
a1863 R. Whately in E. J. Whately Life & Corr. R. Whately (1866) II. 428 ‘Curates, rectors, archdeacons, deans, bundle in, bundle in!’
1879 R. Browning Ivan Ivanovitch in Idyls I. 109 So in we bundled—I and those God gave me once.
1954 D. Abse Ash on Young Man's Sleeve 152 Leo bundled out of the train.
1984 W. Golding Paper Men i. 10 I bundled into my dressing gown, shoved on my slippers.
4. transitive. To put or send (persons or things) away, in, off, out, etc., hurriedly and unceremoniously. Cf. ‘pack off’, ‘send packing’.
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the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going away > causing to go away > command to go away [verb (transitive)] > send away or dismiss > unceremoniously
to send packingc1450
trussa1500
to go (send, etc.) away with a flea in one's ear1577
to set packing1577
pack1589
ship1594
to send away with a fly in one's ear1606
to give a packing penny to1609
to pack off1693
to cut (also slip) the painter1699
to send about one's business1728
trundle1794
to send to the right about (also rightabouts)1816
bundle1823
to give the bucket to1863
shake1872
to give (a person) the finger1874
to give (a person) the pushc1886
to give (someone or something) the chuck1888
to give (someone) the gate1918
to get the (big) bird1924
to tie a can to (or on)1926
to give (a person) (his or her) running shoes1938
to give (someone) the Lonsdale1958
1823 W. Scott Peveril I. viii. 187 I will bundle away her rags to the Hall.
1830 T. De Quincey Life R. Bentley in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Sept. 438/2 When he and his are all bundled off to Hades.
1857 D. Livingstone Missionary Trav. S. Afr. xvi. 300 She..bundled him into the hut.
1876 E. Jenkins Blot on Queen's Head 5 They were bundled out pretty quick.
1878 C. Bethell Let. in Law Rep.: Weekly Notes (1887) 29 Jan. 18/1 I have been bundled off to the Cape for a year.
5. intransitive. To sleep in one's clothes on the same bed or couch with (as was formerly customary with persons of opposite sexes, in Wales and New England).
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the world > physical sensation > sleeping and waking > sleep > [verb (intransitive)] > other specific conditions
lulla1450
to lie in the woollen1600
to have or get one's sleep out1685
bundle1781
crash1969
1781 S. Peters Gen. Hist. Connecticut 325 It is thought but a piece of civility to ask [a lady] to bundle.
1809 W. Irving Hist. N.Y. II. v. iv. 33 He..trotted merrily..stopping occasionally to..dance at country frolicks, and bundle with the beauteous lasses.
1842 C. Masson Narr. var. Journeys III. 287 Many of the Afghan tribes have a custom in wooing, similar to what in Wales is known as bundling-up.
1851 H. Melville Moby-Dick vii. 40 A speechlessly quick..bundling of a man into Eternity.
1878 C. Wake Evol. Morality I. 401 The custom of bundling..among Celtic peoples.
6. intransitive. To bump heavily or barge into (a person).
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1916 H. Walpole Dark Forest i. vi An officer bundled into him, apologized, but quite obviously cursed him for being in the way.
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transitive. To sell (a set of commercial products or services) together at an all-inclusive price, typically with a discount; (also) to purchase (products or services) in this way.Often with reference to computer software or hardware, or to telecommunications services; cf. bundle n. Additions.
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society > trade and finance > selling > sell [verb (transitive)] > sell in specific manner
retail1365
tap1478
retaliate1640
outsella1687
wholesale1792
to sell short1852
hustle1887
brand1909
oversell1928
package1946
soft-sell1958
test-market1958
mass-market1959
sales-drive1962
bundle1969
cross-sell1972
up-market1972
onsell1979
1969 Datamation June 97/2 We may see some manufacturers continue to bundle their services and hardware to see what kind of a competitive edge they can gain.
1986 InfoWorld 5 May 55/1 Gem Desktop will be bundled with SMT's color graphics and monochrome graphics boards.
1998 Wireless Rev. 1 Oct. 38/1 One popular solution is bundling services such as voice mail, caller ID and call waiting into a package that's included ‘free’ with mid- to high-end rate plans.
2013 Med. Econ. 25 Sept. 32/3 Vendors package their practise management systems into the EHR and offer it at a greatly reduced rate if you bundle them together.
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