Noun

(en noun)

(US, informal) An indeterminately large quantity or group.

Noun

(es)

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

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(lb) The peloton; the main group of riders formed during a race.

An informal body of friends.

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*:“I don't mean all of your friends—only a small proportion—which, however, connects your circle with that deadly, idle, brainless bunch —the insolent chatterers at the opera, the gorged dowagers,, the jewelled animals whose moral code is the code of the barnyard—!"

(lb) A considerable amount.

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(lb) An unmentioned amount; a number.

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(lb) 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.

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(lb) 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.

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

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*:They will carrytheir treasures upon the bunches of camels.