bunched, ppl. a.
(bʌnʃt)
[f. bunch n.1 and v.2 + -ed.]
† a. Having or forming a protuberance; covered with swellings; humped; bulging, protuberant. bunched line, use by Guillim for: A waved line. Obs. b. bunched up, bunched out: (of a dress) gathered into a bunch; also of other things than a dress. † c. buncht-back adj. = bunch-backed. Obs.
| 1519 W. Horman Vulg. 31 His nase was bounchyd aboue, and flat downeward. 1578 Banister Hist. Man i. 20 The vse of the swelled or bounched parte of the first Vertebre. 1603 Holland Plutarch's Mor. 34 Those disciples who counterfeited to be..buncht backe like their master Plato. 1610 J. Guillim Heraldry ii. iii. (1660) 54 A Bunched Line is that which is carried with round reflections or bowings up and down. 1791 Cowper Odyss. xix. 307 His back was bunch'd. 1883 Harper's Mag. Mar. 532/1 Children with bunched-out gowns. 1917 D. H. Lawrence Look! We have come Through! 62 A bunched-up deer, its four little feet Clustered dead. 1934 Burlington Mag. Mar. 128/1 A wild movement of bunched-up draperies. 1959 D. Davie Forests of Lithuania iv. 42 And a knot Of bunched-up mosses. |
d. Bot. Having convex protuberances.
| 1776 J. Lee Introd. Bot. (ed. 3) 378 Fascicularis, bunched. 1900 B. D. Jackson Gloss. Bot. Terms, Bunched, gibbous. |
e. Clustered, gathered into a bunch or bunches. Cf. bunch v.2 2.
| 1904 R. J. Farrer Garden Asia 42 The ground is thick with the bunched stars of a wee blue gentian. 1964 Economist 14 Nov. 737/2 ‘Bunched gains’—heavy realisations coming together in one year that would jack up the applicable rate of tax. |