noun
- a large bundle of hay, cotton, or other material tightly bound with wire or rope
- great evil or misfortune
Usage: archaic; literary
verb
- to make into bales
Examples
- The farmer loaded bales of hay onto the truck.
- Cotton bales were stacked high in the warehouse.
- Workers began to bale the harvested wheat.
- The machine can bale hundreds of pounds of straw per hour.
- Each bale weighed about fifty pounds.
- They stored the bales in the barn for winter.