Etymology From Middle English bundel, from Middle Dutch bondel or Old English byndele, byndelle (“a binding; tying; fastening with bands”); both from Proto-Germanic *bundil-, derivative of *bundą (“bundle”). Compare also bindle, Dutch bundel, German Bündel.
The inventor of that gizmo must have made a bundle.
I mean it's nothing for him to go to the races, do a bundle, and come home laughing and joking like nothing's happened.1995, Paul Vautin, Turn It Up!, Sydney: Pan Macmillan Australia, page 134:
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Biology, Natural sciences A cluster of closely bound muscle or nerve fibres.
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Education, Human sciences, Linguistics, Sciences A sequence of two or more words that occur in language with high frequency but are not idiomatic; a chunk, cluster, or lexical bundle.
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Computing, Engineering, Mathematics, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Sciences A directory containing related resources such as source code; application bundle.
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A quantity of paper equal to two reams (1000 sheets).
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Law A court bundle, the assemblage of documentation prepared for, and referred to during, a court case.
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Mathematics, Sciences Topological space composed of a base space and fibers projected to the base space.
Etymology From Middle English bundel, from Middle Dutch bondel or Old English byndele, byndelle (“a binding; tying; fastening with bands”); both from Proto-Germanic *bundil-, derivative of *bundą (“bundle”). Compare also bindle, Dutch bundel, German Bündel.
To hustle; to dispatch something or someone quickly.
They unmercifully bundled me and my gallant second into our own hackney coach.1835, Theodore Hook, Gilbert Gurney:
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To prepare for departure; to set off in a hurry or without ceremony; used with away, off, out.
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To dress someone warmly.
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To dress warmly. Usually bundle up
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Computing, Engineering, Mathematics, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Sciences To sell hardware and software as a single product.
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To hurry.
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Slang Synonym of dogpile: to form a pile of people upon a victim.
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To hastily or clumsily push, put, carry or otherwise send something into a particular place.
At the other end, Essien thought he had bundled the ball over the line in between Bolton's final two substitutions but the flag had already gone up.2010 December 29, Chris Whyatt, “Chelsea 1 - 0 Bolton”, in BBC:
Yes, there is death in this business of whaling—a speechlessly quick chaotic bundling of a man into Eternity.1851 November 14, Herman Melville, “chapter 7”, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:
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Why, I didn't know that she meant that, until the Captain gave me an explanation, because I was dull of comprehension ; for he bundled me out of the house.1859, Terence, Comedies of Terence:
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Dated To sleep on the same bed without undressing.
Van Corlear […][stopped] occasionally in the villages to eat pumpkin pies, dance at country frolics, and bundle with the Yankee lasses.1809, Diedrich Knickerbocker [pseudonym; Washington Irving], A History of New York, from the Beginning of the World to the End of the Dutch Dynasty. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), New York, N.Y.: Inskeep & Bradford, […], →OCLC:
They were on the couch for nearly an hour, then in the shower for she didn't know how long — until the hot water started to fail and drove them out, anyway. Then she took him into her bed, where she lay too exhausted and too content to do anything but bundle.1991, Stephen King, Needful Things: