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▪ I. bundle, n.|ˈbʌnd(ə)l|
Forms: 4–7 bundel, 5 bondel(l, 5–6 bundelle, boundell, (6 byndle), 6–7 bundell, 7– bundle.
[Proximate derivation obscure; ultimately f. *bund- pa. pple. stem of OTeut. *bind-an to bind; the precise form of the suffix is uncertain. Cf. MDu. bondel (mod. bundel), mod.G. bündel; also OHG. gibuntilî, -lîn neut., MHG. gebündel, and OE. byndele wk. fem. ‘act of binding’ (only in Laws of ælfred xxxv.); but these forms are not exactly parallel. The OE. byndele, or the OE. equivalent of any of the continental words quoted, would have yielded mod.Eng. *bindle, so that the form of the existing word seems to point to adoption from Du. or LG., or else to analogy with the pple. bund, ‘bound’.]
†1. That which binds; a bandage. Obs. rare.
1382Wyclif Jer. ii. 32 Whether forȝete shal..the womman spouse of hir brest bundel [1388 brest girdil, Coverd. stomacher; Vulg. fasciae pectoralis]?
2. a. A collection of things bound or otherwise fastened together; a bunch; a package, parcel.
In some spec. uses now superseded by bunch; e.g. we no longer speak of ‘a bundle of keys, of flowers’; but we still say ‘a bundle of sticks’, etc., not ‘a bunch’. The most frequent application of the word, when not followed by of, is to denote a parcel tied up in a handkerchief.
1388Wyclif Song of Sol. i. 12 My derlyng is a bundel of myrre to me. 1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. xvii. xcvii, [Flax] bounde in praty nytches & boundel. c1440Promp. Parv. 55 Bundelle, fasciculus. 1474Caxton Chesse 110 On his gurdel a bondel of keyes. 1534More On Passion Wks. (1557) 1297/1 A boundell of the lowe growing herbe of Ysope. 1577Dee Relat. Spir. i. (1659) 133 He appeareth now all in violet Silk like a Cloke, and on his head a bundel wreathed of the same. 1636Healey Theophrast. 26 In his hand a bundle of papers. 1716–18Lady M. W. Montague Lett. I. xxiii. 71 How may I send a large bundle to you? 1796H. Glasse Cookery v. 81 Put in some good broth or gravy, and a bundle of sweet herbs. 1802M. Edgeworth Moral T. (1816) I. viii. 63 Tied up a..bundle of linen. 1831Brewster Optics xx. 181 A bundle of glass plates.
b. Anim. Physiol. A set of muscular or nervous fibres bound closely together. fibro-vascular (or vascular) bundle (Veg. Phys.): one of the collections of fibres, vessels, and cells, which constitute the fibro-vascular tissue.
1732Arbuthnot Rules of Diet 283 The bundle of Fibres which constitute the Muscle may be small. 1802Med. & Phys. Jrnl. VIII. 368 The Mollusca..have all the remainder of the common bundle of nerves..contained in the same cavity with the other viscera. 1866Huxley Phys. xi. (1869) 4 Delicate bundles of nervous filaments, the roots of the spinal nerves. 1884Bower & Scott De Bary's Phaner. & Ferns 232.
c. Law, in pl. (see quots.).
1678Phillips, Bundles, a sort of Records of Chancery, lying in the office of the Rolls; as, the Files of Bills, and Answers in Chancery, the Files of Corpus cum Causa, all writs of Certiorari, with their Certificates, and divers others. 1715in Kersey. 1721–90in Bailey.
d. Twenty hanks, or 60,000 yards, of linen yarn.
1875Ure Dict. Arts II. 450 These packages..consist of from quarter of a bundle to five or six bundles.
e. Iron work. A ‘fagot’ of iron or steel rods for welding together and working into a mass of greater toughness.
1831J. Holland Manuf. Metals I. 98 The whole mass was bound together by collars driven on tight, or by strips of iron wrapped firmly about the bundle. Several of these faggots being thus prepared, were placed in a furnace and brought to a welding heat.
f. Two reams of printing or brown paper, a quantity fixed by statute.
1724Act 11 Geo. I. c. 7 p. 367/1 Brown Paper, the Bundle containing 40 Quire..3s. 4d.
g. dial. or slang. A woman, esp. a fat one. Cf. baggage 6 and 7.
1830R. Forby Vocab. E. Anglia I. 46 Bundle, an opprobrious term applied to females, equivalent to baggage, which perhaps means strictly, a follower of the camp. a1841T. Sharp Gloss. Words Warwicksh. (1865) 11 Bundle, a large fat woman. 1922Joyce Ulysses 753 The ironmould mark the stupid old bundle burned on them.
h. (See quot. 1922.) So in phr. to go a (or the) bundle on: to bet much money on; fig. to be very fond of. slang (orig. U.S.).
[1899J. Flynt Tramping with Tramps (1900) IV. 392 Bundle, plunder from a robbery.] 1905‘H. McHugh’ You can search Me 15 Did they sting you for the whole bundle? 1922N. & Q. 12th Ser. XI. 206/2 Packet, parcel, and bundle, a considerable sum of money. To say a person ‘won a packet’, &c., or ‘had a parcel (or bundle) on a horse’, infers that a considerabale sum has been won or laid. 1938D. Runyon Take it Easy ii. 45 So he goes for his entire bundle on Apparition. 1942H. C. Bailey Dead Man's Shoes xxx. 116 Brewing black, pungent liquor, Bryony said he went the bundle on tea himself. 1957P. Wildeblood Main Chance xi. 197 ‘I go a bundle on you,’ he said. 1968A. Diment Bang Bang Birds i. v. 60, I don't go a bundle on being told I'm a pro. 1969Northern Territory News 11 July 18/2 (Dog Racing) Brindle Louvre..backed for bundles.
i. slang. A fight or scrap.
1936J. Curtis Gilt Kid xii. 124 If there was going to be a bundle, he was not going to be bashed sitting down. 1963‘A. Garve’ Sea Monks iii. 88 None o'them ain't goin' to start a bundle if he knows his mate's goin' to get shot for it.
3. a. fig. A collection, ‘lot’ (of things material or immaterial); usually either with contemptuous implication, or with allusion to a figurative ‘tying together’. † to be bound in the bundle of life (a Hebraism derived from the Bible): to be foreordained to continued life.
1535Coverdale 1 Sam. xxv. 29 Then shal the soule of my lorde be bounde in the bundell of y⊇ lyuynge [1611 bound in the bundle of life] euen with the Lorde thy God. 1564Grindal Rem. (1843) 11 A bundle of the principal nobility of the christian world. 1646Sir T. Browne Pseud Ep. i. ii. (1686) 5 A bundle of calumnies. 1768–78Tucker Lt. Nat. II. 336 A bundle of superstitions and gross absurdities. 1785Reid Int. Powers 186 A bundle of sensations. 1863E. Neale Anal. Th. & Nat. 40 The thought of any object is not that of a mere bundle of qualities. 1864Burton Scot Abr. I. i. 25 The King and Queen of France, the King of Navarre, and the royal dukes in a bundle.
b. to drop one's bundle: to give up hope, surrender, resist or compete no further. Austral. and N.Z. slang.
1915C. J. Dennis Songs Sentim. Bloke (1916) 119 To drop the bundle, to surrender; to give up hope. 1928Bulletin (Sydney) 7 Mar. 39/1 'E [a dog] wouldn't chase the 'are. 'E dropped 'is bundle. 1947P. Newton Wayleggo (1949) x. 115 My confidence immediately disappeared. However, I could not ‘drop my bundle’, so into the jungle I went.
c. Colloq. phr. (to be) a bundle of nerves: (see quot. 1940). (Cf. quot. 1802 for sense 2 b.)
1940Partridge Dict. Clichés 35 Bundle of nerves, to be a, to be in an extremely nervous condition; to start at every noise, show irritation at every mishap or hindrance and fear at every alarm. 1946F. Sargeson That Summer 110, I was just a bundle of nerves. 1965J. Fleming Nothing is the Number ii. viii. 116, I am haunted, shadowed. ‘A bundle of nerves’ is the English idiom, is it not?
4. attrib. and Comb., as bundle handkerchief: bundle-man Naut. slang, a married seaman (see quot. 1925); bundle pillar (see quot.); bundle-ring, ring of fibro-vascular bundles; so bundle-system, -tube; bundle-sheath, the sheath investing each fibro-vascular bundle, the endodermis; bundle-wood, firewood made up into bundles; bundle-yarn, yarn made up in bundles (see sense 2 d).
1884Pall Mall G. 11 Sept. 4/2 Crowds..with huge carpet bags, tin boxes and *bundle handkerchiefs.
1895United Service Mag. 518 If one of the officers is on the sick list it is well to have a spare room in the *bundle-man's house. 1925Fraser & Gibbons Soldier & Sailor Words 39 Bundle-man, a, a Lower Deck phrase for a married man, apparently suggested by the small bundle tied up with a blue handkerchief which married seamen..usually take ashore with them when going on leave.
1876Gwilt Archit. Gloss., *Bundle Pillar, in Gothic architecture, a column consisting of a number of small pillars around its circumference.
1884Bower & Scott De Bary's Phaner. & Ferns 258 In the internode of Nepenthes there is found an inner typical *bundle-ring.
1882Vines Sachs' Bot. 123 Masses of tissue accompany the separate fibro-vascular bundles as..envelopes or sheaths; these I term generally *Bundle-sheaths.
1884Bower & Scott De Bary's Phaner. & Ferns 248 A..number of Dicotyledons..differ in their *bundle-system from that which characterises their allies.
1879Good Words 781/1 These great yards are the storage ground of the ‘*bundle’ fire-wood trade. Ibid. 781/2 The bundle wood coming into his own household.
1883Daily News 3 Oct. 2/6 The market for *bundle yarns.
▸ colloq. (orig. U.S.). bundle of joy n. a baby.
1924Oakland (Calif.) Tribune (Electronic text) 30 Jan. My husband..finally consented and now we have our little bundle of joy. 1940Charleston (W. Va.) Gaz. 19 Oct. 12/1 [They] are expecting a bundle of joy. 2006Daily Post (Liverpool) (Nexis) 17 Jan. The blue-eyed bundle of joy that sits beside her..is nine months old.
▪ II. ˈbundle, v.
[f. prec. n.]
1. trans. To tie in, or make up into, a bundle.
1649Apparitions at Woodstock, in Hone Every-day Bk. II. 584 The..oak..they had..bundled up into faggots. 1756Lady M. W. Montague Lett. xcvi. IV. 76, I bundle up all your letters. 1783Cowper Task iv. 668 Flow'rs..bundled close to fill some crowded vase. 1828H. Steuart Planter's G. 249 Care must be taken to bundle up all the flexible parts of the roots. 1859M. Scott Tom Cringle x. 204 The cape..was bundled..into a round heap. 1862C. M. Yonge C'tess Kate vi. 63 She..bundled up her hair as best she might.
b. To ‘fagot’ bar iron for the purpose of welding it together.
1831J. Holland Manuf. Metals I. 98 To cause bar iron..to be closely fagotted or bundled together.
c. To wrap in warm, heavy, or cumbersome clothing, etc. Usu. in pass. and with up.
1893in Funk Stand. Dict. 1923R. Macaulay Told by Idiot ii. vi. 85 The two children were bundled up in bear-skin coats. 1949N. Mitford Love in Cold Climate i. xiii. 135 Lady Montdore was hardly visible, bundled up in her corner. 1957E. Eager Magic by Lake iv. 85 The four children found themselves seated in the middle of it, suitably bundled up and befurred. 1967W. Styron Confessions of Nat Turner i. 32 Men and women bundled against the cold had commenced to hurry up the road. 1976A. Haley Roots (1977) cii. 548 He saw the usually bedridden Uncle Pompey sitting outside his cabin in an old cane chair, bundled in a heavy quilt.
†2. fig. To collect, to gather into a mass. (Usually with up or together.) Obs.
a1628F. Greville Sidney (1652) 235 The former recited particulars, howsoever improperly..bundled up together. 1633Bp. Hall Hard Texts 541, I have bundled up all his sins together..for a meet day of punishment. 1690Locke Hum. Und. iii. v. (1695) 243 Under one Term, bundle together a great variety of..Ideas.
3. intr. To pack up one's effects in preparation for a journey; hence, to go with all one's luggage or incumbrances. Of a number of persons: To go precipitately and in disorder, ‘all in a bundle’ (cf. 4): chiefly with in, off, out; also used with sing. subj. and in extended use.
1787Burns Prose Wks. 25 The devil's bagpiper will touch him off ‘Bundle and go!’ 1802G. Colman Poor Gentl. v. iii. (L.) Is your ladyship's honour bundling off then? 1845Kinglake Eothen xviii. 282 He made both his wives bundle out. 1847J. O. Halliwell Dict. Archaic & Provinc. Words I. 219/1 Bundle... To set off in a hurry. a1863Whately in Miss Whately Life & Corr. (1866) II. 428 ‘Curates, rectors, archdeacons, deans, bundle in, bundle in!’ 1879Browning Ivan Ivanovitch 109 So in we bundled—I and those God gave me once. 1954D. Abse Ash on Young Man's Sleeve 152 Leo bundled out of the train. 1984W. Golding Paper Men i. 10, I bundled into my dressing gown, shoved on my slippers.
4. trans. To put or send (persons or things) away, in, off, out, etc., hurriedly and unceremoniously. Cf. ‘pack off’, ‘send packing’.
1823Scott Peveril (1865) 63, I will bundle away her rags to the Hall. 1830De Quincey Bentley Wks. VII. 39 When he and his are all bundled off to Hades. 1857Livingstone Trav. xvi. 300 She..bundled him into the hut. 1876E. Jenkins Blot on Queen's H. 5 They were bundled out pretty quick. 1878C. Bethell in Law Rep. (1887) 18/1, I have been bundled off to the Cape for a year.
5. intr. To sleep in one's clothes on the same bed or couch with (as was formerly customary with persons of opposite sexes, in Wales and New England).
1781S. Peters Gen. Hist. Connecticut (Bartlett) It is thought but a piece of civility to ask [a lady] to bundle. 1809W. Irving Knickerb. (Bartlett) Van Corlear stopped occasionally in the villages to..dance at country frolics, and bundle with the Yankee lasses. 1842–78[see bundling vbl. n.]. |