Bundle /(bŭn"d'l)/

Bun·dle

Bundle

n.
  1. 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.

Phrases & Compounds
Bundle pillar
a column or pier, with others of small dimensions attached to it.

Bundle

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.
  3. to sell together as a single item at one inclusive price; -- usually done for related products which work or are used together.

Phrases & Compounds
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.

Phrases & Compounds
To bundle up
to dress warmly, snugly, or cumbrously.