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Bundling   /bˈəndəlɪŋ/  /bˈəndlɪŋ/   Listen
Bundling

noun
1.
A onetime custom during courtship of unmarried couples occupying the same bed without undressing.
2.
The act of binding something into a bundle.
3.
The act of shoving hastily.



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"Bundling" Quotes from Famous Books



... say, I showed the ladies a drop of vinegar under the microscope," Martha said. "They screamed when they saw all the wriggly worms, and I was put to it to keep them from bundling back home. Then we talked about you, Stoltz, and about the farm; and when would I be giving you Kinner to help with all the work," she said. Martha fiddled with the cloak she was sewing for her husband. "It was largely their heathen speech we used, so I understood only what they pointed ...
— Blind Man's Lantern • Allen Kim Lang

... goin' a sparkin'," suggested one of the idlers. "The gal up ter the squire's holds herself pooty high an' mighty, but like as not she's as plaguey fond of bundling with a good-looking man on the sly as ...
— Janice Meredith • Paul Leicester Ford

... filled with, say, twenty-four 6-cut hanks, there will evidently be 3 spyndles of yarn on the reel. The 24 mill-hanks are then slipped off the end of the reel, and the hanks taken to the bundling stool or frame. Here they, along with others of the same count, are made up into bundles which weigh from 54 lb. to 60 lb. according to the count of the yarn. Each bundle contains a number of complete hanks, and it is unusual to split a hank for the purpose of maintaining ...
— The Jute Industry: From Seed to Finished Cloth • T. Woodhouse and P. Kilgour



Words linked to "Bundling" :   courtship, packing, courting, suit, boxing, practice bundling, shove, wooing



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