a knot; a tuft; a cluster; a number joined together in one mass—Johnson; a compact body of persons, animals, or things. See also bunch, clump, company, flock, etc.
Examples: plump of coleworts; of conjectures and great presumptions; of green corn; of deeps (the oceans); of ducks; of folk; of hazelnuts; of moorhens; of pains; of resolution; of seals; of spearmen; of trees; of orchard trees; of whales; of wild fowl; of wood (a copse); of yachts (at anchor).