Subscriber login


Forgot your password?

Library card login

Other

bale1

Pronunciation: /beɪl/
Translate bale | into German | into Italian | into Spanish
Definition of bale

noun

  • a large wrapped or bound bundle of paper, hay, or cotton: the fire destroyed 500 bales of hay
  • the quantity in a bale as a measure, specifically (in the US) 500 lb of cotton: world cotton consumption was a record 86 m bales

verb

[with object]
  • make up into bales:the straw is left on the field to be baled later

Origin:

Middle English: probably from Middle Dutch, from Old French; ultimately of Germanic origin and related to ball1

bale in other Oxford dictionaries

Definition of bale in the US English dictionary

Nearby words

  |  Cite

Word of the day

epithalamium

/ ˌɛpɪθəˈleɪmɪəm /
noun
a song or poem celebrating a marriage …