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noun

• A group of similar things, either growing together, or in a cluster or clump, usually fastened together.

  Example: a bunch of grapes;  a bunch of bananas;  a bunch of keys;  a bunch of yobs on a street corner

• The peloton; the main group of riders formed during a race.

• An informal body of friends.

  Example: He still hangs out with the same bunch.

• A considerable amount.

  Example: a bunch of trouble

• An unmentioned amount; a number.

  Example: A bunch of them went down to the field.

• A group of logs tied together for skidding.

• An unusual concentration of ore in a lode or a small, discontinuous occurrence or patch of ore in the wallrock.

• 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.

• An unfinished cigar, before the wrapper leaf is added.

  Example: 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.

• A protuberance; a hunch; a knob or lump; a hump.

verb

• To gather into a bunch.

• To gather fabric into folds.

• To form a bunch.

• To be gathered together in folds

• To protrude or swell