bundle

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. A group of objects held together, as by tying or wrapping.
2. n. Something wrapped or tied up for carrying; a package.
3. n. Biology A cluster or strand of closely bound muscle or nerve fibers.
4. n. Botany A vascular bundle.
5. n. Informal A large amount; a lot: had a bundle of fun at the dance.
6. n. Informal A large sum of money: made a bundle selling real estate.
7. v. To tie, wrap, or gather together.
8. v. To dispatch or dispense of quickly and with little fuss; hustle: bundled the child off to school.
9. v. To dress (a person) warmly: bundled them up in winter clothes.
10. v. To hurry; hasten: The children came bundling in from outside.
11. v. To dress oneself warmly.
12. v. To sleep in the same bed while fully clothed, a custom formerly practiced by engaged couples in New England and in Wales.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. A number of things bound together; anything bound or rolled into a convenient form for conveyance or handling; a package; a roll: as, a bundle of lace; a bundle of hay.
2. n. Hence A group or a number of things having some common characteristic which leads to their being held and transferred in the same ownership.
3. n. In botany, a fascicular aggregation of one or more elementary tissues traversing other tissues. The bundle may be either vascular (composed of vessels only) or fibrovascular (containing both fibrous and vascular tissues), and is usually surrounded by a layer of parenchyma, or soft cellular tissue, called the bundle-sheath.
4. n. In paper-making, two reams of printing-paper or brown paper: established by a statute of George I.
5. n. In spinning, twenty hanks or 6,000 yards of linen yarn. [Bundle is also used as a unit of weight for straw, and of tale for barrel-hoops, but without any fixed value. A bundle of bast ropes is ten, by a statute of Charles II.]
6. To tie or bind in a bundle or roll: often followed by up: as, to bundle up clothes.
7. To place or dispose of in a hurried, unceremonious manner.
8. To depart in a hurry or unceremoniously: often with off.
9. In New England (in early times) and in Wales, to sleep in the same bed without undressing: applied to the custom of men and women, especially sweethearts, thus sleeping.

Wiktionary

1. n. A group of objects held together by wrapping or tying.
2. n. A package wrapped or tied up for carrying.
3. n. biology A cluster of closely bound muscle or nerve fibres.
4. n. informal A large amount, especially of money.
5. n. computing A directory containing related resources such as source code; application bundle.
6. v. To tie or wrap together.
7. v. To hustle; to dispatch something or someone quickly.
8. v. intransitive To prepare for departure; to set off in a hurry or without ceremony.
9. v. transitive To dress someone warmly.
10. v. intransitive To dress warmly. Usually bundle up
11. v. computing To sell hardware and software as a single product.
12. v. intransitive To hurry.
13. v. slang To dogpile
14. v. transitive To hastily or clumsily push, put, carry or otherwise send something into a particular place.
15. v. dated, intransitive To sleep on the same bed without undressing.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. 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.
2. v. To tie or bind in a bundle or roll.
3. v. To send off abruptly or without ceremony.
4. v. to sell together as a single item at one inclusive price; -- usually done for related products which work or are used together.
5. v. To prepare for departure; to set off in a hurry or without ceremony.
6. v. To sleep on the same bed without undressing; -- applied to the custom of a man and woman, especially lovers, thus sleeping.

WordNet 3.0

1. n. a package of several things tied together for carrying or storing
2. v. compress into a wad
3. n. a large sum of money (especially as pay or profit)
4. n. a collection of things wrapped or boxed together
5. v. make into a bundle
6. v. sleep fully clothed in the same bed with one's betrothed
7. v. gather or cause to gather into a cluster