Noun

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A fold or wrinkle.

1921' ''The mouth was compressed, and on either side of it two tiny wrinkles had formed themselves in her cheeks. An infinity of slightly malicious amusement lurked in those little folds, in the '''puckers about the half-closed eyes, in the eyes themselves, bright and laughing between the narrowed lids. — Aldous Huxley, ''Crome Yellow , Chapter 3.

A state of perplexity or anxiety; confusion; bother; agitation.

1874' ''"What a '''pucker everything is in!" said Bathsheba, discontentedly when the child had gone. "Get away, Maryann, or go on with your scrubbing, or do something! You ought to be married by this time, and not here troubling me!"'' — Thomas Hardy, '' Far From the Madding Crowd.

Noun

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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.