Definition of "bundle"

bundle

/ˈbʌnd(ə)l/

noun
plural bundles
1. A group of objects held together by wrapping or tying.
  Quotations
  The fable of the rods, which, when united in a bundle, no strength could bend.
  1760, Oliver Goldsmith, On National Concord
2. A package wrapped or tied up for carrying.
3. A group of products or services sold together as a unit.
4. (informal) A large amount, especially of money.
5. (biology) A cluster of closely bound muscle or nerve fibres.
6. (linguistics, education) A sequence of two or more words that occur in language with high frequency but are not idiomatic; a chunk, cluster, or lexical bundle.
7. (computing, Mac OS X) A directory containing related resources such as source code; application bundle.
8. A quantity of paper equal to two reams (1000 sheets).
9. (law) A court bundle, the assemblage of documentation prepared for, and referred to during, a court case.
10. (mathematics) Topological space composed of a base space and fibers projected to the base space.
verb
third-person singular simple present bundles, present participle bundling, simple past and past participle bundled
1. (transitive) To tie or wrap together into a bundle.
2. (transitive) To hustle; to dispatch something or someone quickly.
  Quotations
  They unmercifully bundled me and my gallant second into our own hackney coach.
  1835, Theodore Hook, Gilbert Gurney
3. (intransitive) To prepare for departure; to set off in a hurry or without ceremony; used with away, off, out.
4. (transitive) To dress someone warmly.
5. (intransitive) To dress warmly. Usually bundle up
6. (computing) To sell hardware and software as a single product.
7. (intransitive) To hurry.
8. (slang) Synonym of dogpile: to form a pile of people upon a victim.
9. (transitive) To hastily or clumsily push, put, carry or otherwise send something into a particular place.
  Quotations
  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
  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
10. (dated, intransitive) To sleep on the same bed without undressing.
  Quotations
  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. […], volumes (please specify |volume=I or II), New York, N.Y.: Inskeep & Bradford, […]
  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