BALE meaning: Bundle of compressed hay, straw

We found 44 dictionaries that define the word BALE:

General (28 matching dictionaries)

Bale, bale: Merriam-Webster
bale, bale, bale: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
bale, bale: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
bale: Collins English Dictionary
Bale, bale: Vocabulary.com
Bale, bale: Wordnik
bale: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
Bale, bale: Wiktionary
bale: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
bale: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
bale: Infoplease Dictionary
Bale, bale: Dictionary.com
bale: Online Etymology Dictionary
bale: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
Bale (disambiguation), Bale (town), Bale: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
Bale: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
bale: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
bale: Rhymezone
Bale: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
bale: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
Bale: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
bale: FreeDictionary.org
bale: Mnemonic Dictionary
bale: TheFreeDictionary.com
bale: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
bale: Merriam-Webster

Art (2 matching dictionaries)

Epicurus.com Coffee Glossary (No longer online)
Glossary of Stamp Collecting Terms (No longer online)

Business (4 matching dictionaries)

Abbreviations in shipping (No longer online)
bale: Legal dictionary
Glossary of Trade and Shipping Terms (No longer online)
BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)

bale: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)

bale: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)

Sound-Alike Words (No longer online)
BALE: Acronym Finder
bale: Idioms

Science (1 matching dictionary)

How Many? A Dictionary of Units of Measurement (No longer online)

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)

bale, bale: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
Bale: Street Terms: Drugs and the Drug Trade
Bale, the bale: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)

Bale: Latitude Mexico

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Bale)

▸ noun:  Evil, especially considered as an active force for destruction or death.
▸ noun:  Suffering, woe, torment.
▸ noun:  (obsolete) A large fire, a conflagration or bonfire.
▸ noun:  (archaic) A funeral pyre.
▸ noun:  (archaic) A beacon-fire.
▸ noun:  A rounded bundle or package of goods in a cloth cover, and corded for storage or transportation.
▸ noun:  A bundle of compressed fibers (especially hay, straw, cotton, or wool), compacted for shipping and handling and bound by twine or wire.
▸ noun:  A measurement of hay equal to 10 flakes. Approximately 70-90 lbs (32-41 kg).
▸ noun:  A measurement of paper equal to 10 reams.
▸ noun:  A block of compressed cannabis.
▸ noun:  (collective) A group of turtles.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To wrap into a bale.
▸ verb:  (British, nautical) To remove water from a boat with buckets etc.
▸ noun:  A surname.
▸ noun:  A municipality of Croatia.

Similar:

Basel, Basle, balefire, bane, evil day, demon, beast, grave, scourge, carnage, more...

Opposite:

unbale, unbundle, unpack, unpackage

Types:

hay bale, straw bale, cotton bale, wool bale, alfalfbale, silage bale, peanut bale, rice straw bale, more...

Phrases:

john bale, straw bale, bale out, hay bale, Cotton bale, more...

Adjectives:

first, single, straw, large, pound, last, whole, small, round, huge, big

Colors:

green, yellow, brown, beige, tan, more...