3 entries under this word

Bundle

Bŭn'dle, n.

noun

n. [A-S. byndel, D. bondel, bundel, Ger. bündel, dim. of bund, bundle, from the root of bind, A-S. bindan, Ger. binden. See BIND.] A number of things bound together, especially 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; a bundle of old clothes. Every school-boy can have recourse to the fable of the rods, which, when united in a bundle, no strength could bend. Goldsmith.

Bŭn'dle, v. t.

verbtransitive

v. t. [imp. & p. p. BUNDLED; p. pr. & vb. n. BUNDLING.] To tie or bind in a bundle or roll. To bundle off, to send off in a hurry, or per. — To bundle up, to tie together; to wrap up.

Bŭn'dle, v. i.

verbintransitive

v. i. 1. To prepare for departure; to set off in a hurry. Halliwell.

Sense 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. W. Irving.