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▪ I. ˈbindle1 Sc.
[Cf. OE. bindele a binding, a tying.]
‘The cord or rope that binds anything, whether made of hemp or of straw.’ Jamieson.
▪ II. bindle2 U.S. and Canadian slang.|ˈbɪnd(ə)l|
[Prob. a corruption of bundle n., but cf. prec.]
a. A bundle containing clothes and possessions, esp. a bedding-roll carried by a tramp. Hence bindle-man, -stiff, a tramp who carries such a bundle.
1900‘Flynt’ Itinerant Policeman 167 Among the ‘Bindle Men’, ‘Mush Fakers’, and ‘Turnpikers’ of the middle West, the East, and Canada, there exists a crude system of marking ‘good’ houses. 1901J. London Let. 6 Dec. (1966) 126 Wyckoff only knows the workingman, the stake-man, and the bindle-stiff. 1925Forum Aug. 232 Carrying his ‘bindle roll’ or roll of blankets on his back, he is prepared to make his home wherever night finds him. Ibid. 235 Bindle stiff, a western hobo, who carries his blankets in a roll or bindle. 1927Glasgow Herald 24 July 8 In his stride he took almost all the experiences that can befall bums, bindle stiffs.. and all other variously designated knights of the moonlight. 1937J. Steinbeck Of Mice & Men 4 George unslung his bindle and dropped it gently on the bank. 1952― East of Eden vii. 46 Before he knew it he was a bindlestiff himself.
b. Any package or bundle, spec. one containing narcotics (see quot. 1923).
1916Lit. Digest 19 Aug. 425/1 A package is a ‘bindle’. 1922E. Murphy Black Candle (1926) xi. 214 The pedlars would buy it [sc. morphine] in big amounts; would..dish it out in small packages. We would call these ‘decks’, but some people call them ‘bindles’. 1923Dialect Notes VI. vi. 246 Bindle, a package containing either morphine or cocaine. ‘Give me a bindle of snow.’ |