bundling

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

noun a onetime custom during courtship of unmarried couples occupying the same bed without undressing
noun the act of binding something into a bundle
noun the act of shoving hastily

Yes, there is death in this business of whaling—a speechlessly quick chaotic bundling of a man into Eternity. — Moby Dick; Or, The Whale, Herman Melville
If this brother, for instance, had to be bundled back to Australia, it was Mr. Cayley who would do most of the bundling. — The Red House Mystery, A. A. (Alan Alexander) Milne
Now he began to shave, digging his fingers into my countenance to stretch the skin and bundling and tumbling my head this way and that as convenience in shaving demanded. — Sketches New and Old, Mark Twain

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