1650. Fuller, Pisgah, II. v. 129. Haran … and Eden and Sheba … all near one another (as appeares by their bundling up together).
1705. Hickeringill, Priest-cr., IV. (1721), 242. That know no other Test of Holy Writ, but the Book-binders bundling them into one Volume.
1807. C. W. Janson, in Edin. Rev., X. 109. I have frequently heard of an amusement in New England, and particularly in the state of Connecticut, called bundling.
1842. C. Masson, Jrnl. Balochistan, &c. III. 287. Many of the Afghân tribes have a custom in wooing, similar to what in Wales is known as bundling-up.
1851. H. Melville, Whale, I. 58. A speechlessly quick … bundling of a man into Eternity.
1878. C. S. Wake, Evol. Moral., I. 401. The custom of bundling allowed down to a very recent period among Celtic peoples to unmarried couples.
attrib. 1831. J. Holland, Manuf. Metals, I. 145. These are at the forge made up into faggots on the bundling bench.
1875. Ure, Dict. Arts, II. 450. It is … better to employ a bundling press than an ordinary table, as the yarn can then be made up more solidly.
1887. Scotsman, 19 March, Advt. Bundling and packing machinery.
