Definition of Bundling

1. Noun. A onetime custom during courtship of unmarried couples occupying the same bed without undressing.

Generic synonyms: Courting, Courtship, Suit, Wooing

2. Noun. The act of binding something into a bundle.
Generic synonyms: Boxing, Packing

3. Noun. The act of shoving hastily. "She complained about bundling the children off to school"
Generic synonyms: Shove

Definition of Bundling

1. Verb. (present participle of bundle) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Bundling

1. a former courtship custom [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Bundling

bundle of His
bundle of Rasmussen
bundle of energy
bundle of joy
bundle of laughs
bundle of nerves
bundle off
bundle up
bundled
bundled-up
bundler
bundlers
bundles
bundles of joy
bundleware
bundling (current term)
bundlings
bundobust
bundobusts
bundook
bundooks
bunds
bundt
bundt cake
bundt cakes
bundts
bundu
bundus
bunfight
bunfights

Literary usage of Bundling

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Making, Shaping and Treating of Steel by James McIntyre Camp, Charles Blaine Francis (1920)
"In bundling material up to twelve feet on domestic orders only two ... bundling Export Material: On export orders, the weight of a bundle is always ..."

2. Problems Surrounding the Mortgage Origination Process: Congressional Hearing edited by Lauch Faircloth, Connie Mack (2000)
"In a world with less than perfect information for consumers, there is a final potential benefit from bundling of services: The certification of the bundle ..."

3. A History of New-York: From the Beginning of the World to the End of the by Washington Irving (1821)
"... well authenticated by court records and parish registers, that wherever the practice of bundling prevailed, there was an amazing number of sturdy brats\ ..."

4. History of the Pilgrims and Puritans: Their Ancestry and Descendants; Basis by Joseph Dillaway Sawyer (1922)
"The custom of "bundling," prevailed extensively in all the countries of Europe fronting the North Atlantic, the North Sea, the English Channel, ..."

5. A History of Matrimonial Institutions Chiefly in England and the United by George Elliott Howard (1904)
"PRE-CONTRACTS, bundling, AND SEXUAL IMMORALITY The colonists were extremely anxious to restrain vice by legislation. The whole field of private morals was ..."

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