Sekirov Dictionary

bunch

/bʌntʃ/

noun11

  1. a group of things of one kind that grow or are held together, such as flowers or keys
  2. A group of logs tied together for skidding.
  3. (US, informal) A considerable amount.
  4. (informal) An unmentioned amount; a number.
  5. An informal body of friends.
  6. The peloton; the main group of riders formed during a race.
  7. A protuberance; a hunch; a knob or lump; a hump.
  8. An unfinished cigar, before the wrapper leaf is added.
  9. An unusual concentration of ore in a lode or a small, discontinuous occurrence or patch of ore in the wallrock.
  10. 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.
  11. (no longer used) A seventeenth-century unit of Rhenish glass, 60 of which constitute a way or web.

verb5

  1. To gather into a bunch.
  2. To gather fabric into folds.
  3. To form a bunch.
  4. To be gathered together in folds
  5. To protrude or swell
forms

bunched · bunching · bunches

Phrases with bunch

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