bunch

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Synonyms: munch, butch, punch, hunch, bench, bunco, runch, wunch, lunch, gunch, cunch

Antonyms: munch, butch, punch, hunch, bench, bunco, runch, wunch, lunch, gunch, cunch

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Noun

1. {{lb|en|collective}} A [[group]] of [[similar]] things, either [[grow]]ing together, or in a [[cluster]] or [[clump]], usually fastened together.
2. {{lb|en|cycling|collective}} The [[peloton]]; the main group of [[rider]]s formed during a [[race]].
3. {{lb|en|collective}} An [[informal]] [[body]] of [[friend]]s.
4. {{lb|en|US|informal}} A [[considerable]] [[amount]].
5. {{lb|en|informal}} An unmentioned amount; a [[number]].
6. {{lb|en|forestry}} A group of [[log]]s tied together for [[skidding]].
7. {{lb|en|geology|mining}} An unusual [[concentration]] of [[ore]] in a [[lode]] or a small, discontinuous [[occurrence]] or patch of ore in the [[wallrock]].
8. {{lb|en|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. {{lb|en|smoking}} An unfinished [[cigar]], before the wrapper leaf is added.
10. A [[protuberance]]; a [[hunch]]; a knob or lump; a hump.
11. {{senseid|en|glass}} {{lb|en|glassblowing|obsolete}} A seventeenth-century unit of [[Rhenish]] glass, 60 of which constitute a [[way#English: glass|way]] or [[web#English: glass|web]].

Verb

1. {{lb|en|transitive}} To [[gather]] into a bunch.
2. {{lb|en|transitive}} To gather [[fabric]] into folds.
3. {{lb|en|intransitive}} To form a bunch.
4. {{lb|en|intransitive}} To be gathered together in folds
5. {{lb|en|intransitive}} To [[protrude]] or [[swell]]

Proper noun

1. {{lb|en|countable}} {{surname|en}}.
2. {{place|en|unincorporated community/and/CDP|co/Adair County|s/Oklahoma|c/USA}}, named after Cherokee Rabbit Bunch.

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