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Webster 1913 Edition

Bunch

Bunch

(bŭnch; 224)
,
Noun.
[Akin to OSw. & Dan.
bunke
heap, Icel.
bunki
heap, pile,
bunga
tumor, protuberance; cf. W.
pwng
cluster. Cf.
Bunk
.]
1.
A protuberance; a hunch; a knob or lump; a hump.
They will carry . . . their treasures upon the
bunches
of camels.
Isa. xxx. 6.
2.
A collection, cluster, or tuft, properly of things of the same kind, growing or fastened together;
as, a
bunch
of grapes; a
bunch
of keys
.
3.
(Mining)
A small isolated mass of ore, as distinguished from a continuous vein.
Page.

Bunch

,
Verb.
I.
[
imp. & p. p.
Bunched
;
p. pr. & vb. n.
Bunching
.]
To swell out into a bunch or protuberance; to be protuberant or round.
Bunching
out into a large round knob at one end.
Woodward.

Bunch

,
Verb.
T.
To form into a bunch or bunches.

Webster 1828 Edition

Bunch

BUNCH

, n.
1.
A protuberance; a hunch; a knob or lump; as the bunch on a camel's back.
2.
A cluster; a number of the same kind growing together; as a bunch of grapes.
3.
A number of things tied together; as a bunch of keys; a bunch or rods.
4.
A collection of things; a knot; as a bunch of hair; a bunch of trees.

BUNCH

,
Verb.
I.
To swell out in a protuberance; to be protuberant or round.

BUNCH

,
Verb.
T.
To form or tie in a bunch or bunches.

Definition 2024

bunch

bunch

English

Noun

a bunch of grapes

bunch ‎(plural bunches)

  1. A group of a number of similar things, either growing together, or in a cluster or clump, usually fastened together.
    a bunch of grapes;  a bunch of bananas;  a bunch of keys;  a bunch of yobs on a street corner‎
    • 1897, Bram Stoker, chapter 21, in Dracula:
      When we had examined this last find, Lord Godalming and Quincey Morris taking accurate notes of the various addresses of the houses in the East and the South, took with them the keys in a great bunch, and set out to destroy the boxes in these places.
    • 1913, Joseph C. Lincoln, chapter 1, in Mr. Pratt's Patients:
      I stumbled along through the young pines and huckleberry bushes. Pretty soon I struck into a sort of path that, I cal'lated, might lead to the road I was hunting for. It twisted and turned, and, the first thing I knew, made a sudden bend around a bunch of bayberry scrub and opened out into a big clear space like a lawn.
  2. (cycling) The peloton; the main group of riders formed during a race.
  3. An informal body of friends.
    He still hangs out with the same bunch.‎
    • 1907, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, “chapter VI”, in The Younger Set (Project Gutenberg; EBook #14852), New York, N.Y.: A. L. Burt Company, published 1 February 2005 (Project Gutenberg version), OCLC 4241346:
      “I don't mean all of your friends—only a small proportion—which, however, connects your circle with that deadly, idle, brainless bunch—the insolent chatterers at the opera, the gorged dowagers, […], the jewelled animals whose moral code is the code of the barnyard—!"
  4. (US, informal) A considerable amount.
    a bunch of trouble‎
  5. (informal) An unmentioned amount; a number.
    A bunch of them went down to the field.‎
  6. (forestry) A group of logs tied together for skidding.
  7. (geology, mining) An unusual concentration of ore in a lode or a small, discontinuous occurrence or patch of ore in the wallrock.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Page to this entry?)
  8. (textiles) The reserve yarn on the filling bobbin to allow continuous weaving between the time of indication from the midget feeler until a new bobbin is put in the shuttle.
  9. An unfinished cigar, before the wrapper leaf is added.
    Two to four filler leaves are laid end to end and rolled into the two halves of the binder leaves, making up what is called the bunch.‎
  10. A protuberance; a hunch; a knob or lump; a hump.
    • Bible, Isaiah xxx. 6
      They will carry […] their treasures upon the bunches of camels.

Synonyms

Translations

an informal body of friends

Derived terms

Verb

bunch ‎(third-person singular simple present bunches, present participle bunching, simple past and past participle bunched)

  1. (transitive) To gather into a bunch.
  2. (transitive) To gather fabric into folds.
  3. (intransitive) To form a bunch.
  4. (intransitive) To be gathered together in folds
  5. (intransitive) To protrude or swell
    • Woodward
      Bunching out into a large round knob at one end.

Synonyms

Derived terms

Translations

Etymology

From Middle English bunche ‎(“hump, swelling”), perhaps a variant of *bunge (compare dialectal English bung ‎(“heap, grape bunch”)), from Proto-Germanic *bunkō, *bunkô, *bungǭ ‎(“heap, crowd”) (compare West Frisian bonke ‎(“bone, lump, bump”), German Bunge ‎(“tuber”), Danish bunke ‎(“heap, pile”)), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰenǵʰ-, *bʰéng̑ʰus ‎(“thick, dense, fat”) (compare Hittite panku ‎(“total, entire”), Tocharian B pkante ‎(“volume, fatness”), Lithuanian búožė ‎(“knob”), Ancient Greek παχύς ‎(pakhús, “thick”), Sanskrit बहु ‎(bahú, “thick; much”)).

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -ʌntʃ

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