bundle : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: bundle	by the DICT Development Group
4 results for bundle
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
bundle n a collection of things wrapped or boxed together [syn: package, bundle, packet, parcel] a package of several things tied together for carrying or storing Synonym(s): bundle, sheaf a large sum of money (especially as pay or profit); "she made a bundle selling real estate"; "they sank megabucks into their new house" Synonym(s): pile, bundle, big bucks, megabucks, big money v make into a bundle; "he bundled up his few possessions" Synonym(s): bundle, bundle up, roll up gather or cause to gather into a cluster; "She bunched her fingers into a fist" Synonym(s): bunch, bunch up, bundle, cluster, clump compress into a wad; "wad paper into the box" Synonym(s): pack, bundle, wad, compact sleep fully clothed in the same bed with one's betrothed Synonym(s): bundle, practice bundling
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Bundle \Bun"dle\ (b[ucr]n"d'l), n. [OE. bundel, AS. byndel; akin to D. bondel, bundel, G. b[81]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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
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.