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To bale is to bundle something together.
(verb)An example of something you may bale is hay.
The definition of a bale is something that is bundled and bound together, often in equal measure, or the amount that is in the bundle.
(noun)- An example of a bale is a pile of hay tied together.
- An example of a bale is 100 pounds of hay.
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See bale in Webster's New World College Dictionary
noun
a large bundle, esp. a standardized quantity of goods, as ginned cotton, hay, straw, etc., compressed, bound, and sometimes wrapped
Origin: ME < OFr < OHG balla, ball
Related Forms:
- baler noun
noun
- evil; disaster; harm
- sorrow; woe
Origin: ME < OE bealu, akin to OHG bal, evil, ON bǫl, harm < IE base *bheleu-, to beat > blow
noun
Archaic balefire
See bale in American Heritage Dictionary 4
noun
A large package of raw or finished material tightly bound with twine or wire and often wrapped: a bale of hay.
transitive verb baled baled, bal·ing, bales To wrap in a bale or in bales: a machine that bales cotton.
Origin:
Origin: Middle English
Origin: , from Old French; see bhel-2 in Indo-European roots
.Related Forms:
- balˈer noun
noun
- Evil: “Tidings of bale she brought” (William Cullen Bryant).
- Mental suffering; anguish: “Relieve my spirit from the bale that bows it down” (Benjamin Disraeli).
Origin:
Origin: Middle English
Origin: , from Old English bealu
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