Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A staging or scaffold in a mine-level for carrying debris.

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  • verb Present participle of bund.

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Examples

  • Internet due to "bunding" Internet Explorer with their operating system.

    TechCrunch Guest Author 2010

  • Internet due to "bunding" Internet Explorer with their operating system.

    TechCrunch Guest Author 2010

  • By contrast, the vicar's study was bunding with light from the enormous windows that ran nearly from ceiling to floor in one wall.

    Sick Cycle Carousel 2010

  • The houses are insulated with earth bunding on three sides.

    Archbishop's visit to Lincoln 2010

  • The first essential step in dry farming is bunding.

    28 additional technical notes about tropical agriculture 1996

  • All soil conservation works, particularly contour bunding, must be fully protected against erosion, preferably with vegetative cover.

    Chapter 9 1995

  • Compared to terracing, bunding, or land leveling, vetiver is very inexpensive.

    4 Questions and Answers 1993

  • Experience in India and in other countries has shown that conventional earth bunding systems on small farms have been expensive to develop and have in many cases proved ineffective.

    1. Indigenous soil and water conservation in Africa. 1992

  • For a while he raced ahead of them in a bunding surge of speed toward the distant green mountain.

    Harpist in the Wind McKillip, Patricia A. 1979

  • Mad with fear the herd plunged through the fires, their small hoofs knocking sparks in a bunding shower.

    Conan of Cimmeria Howard, Robert E. 1969

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