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The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English | 2009 | Copyright

bale / bāl/ • n. a bundle of paper, hay, cotton, etc., tightly wrapped and bound with cords or hoops: the fire destroyed 500 bales of hay. ∎  the quantity in a bale as a measure, esp. 500 pounds of cotton. • v. [tr.] make (something) into bales: they baled a lot of good hay | [as n.] (baling) most baling and field work have been finished. bale2 • n. archaic or poetic/lit. evil considered as a destructive force. ∎  evil suffered; physical torment or mental suffering.

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Dictionary of Collective Nouns and Group Terms | 1985 | Copyright

Bale

a large bundle or package; a measure of varying quantity, 1502.

Examples: bale of cloth; of coffee [two to two and a half hundred-weight]; of cotton; of crown paper [14 reams]; of dice [a pair or set], 1822; of turtles—Lipton, 1970.
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The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology | 1996 | | Copyright

bale1 evil, harm. OE. balu (bealu) = OHG. balo, ON. bǫl :- Gmc. *balwam, n. of adj. *balwaz. Cf. Goth. balwawesei wickedness. The OE. word was reinforced in ME. by ON. bǫl, bal-.
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The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology | 1996 | | Copyright

bale3 lade out. XVII. Later sp. of bail (XVII), f. †bail sb. vessel for lading water (XV) — OF. baille bucket, prob.:- Rom. *bajula, fem. of L. bājulus carrier.
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A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture | 2000 | | Copyright

bale. Type of tomb found in the Cotswolds in England, essentially an altar-tomb supporting a stone half-cylinder resembling a woollen bale.
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A Dictionary of British Place-Names | 2003 | | Copyright

Bale Norfolk. Bathele 1086 (DB). ‘Woodland clearing where there are springs used for bathing’. OE bæth + lēah.
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The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology | 1996 | | Copyright

bale2 bundle, package. XIV. prob. — MDu. bale (Du. baal) — OF. bale (mod. balle); ult. identical with BALL1.
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The Oxford Companion to Ships and the Sea | 2006 | Copyright

bale, a curved metal strap usually attached to the spar of a yacht on which to hang a block.

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The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed. | 2011 | Copyright

Bâle Switzerland: see Basel .

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Oxford Dictionary of Rhymes | 2007 | Copyright

bale •ail, ale, assail, avail, bail, bale, bewail, brail, Braille, chain mail, countervail, curtail, dale, downscale, drail, dwale, entail, exhale, fail, faille, flail, frail, Gael, Gail, gale, Grail, grisaille, hail, hale, impale, jail, kale, mail, male, nail, nonpareil, outsail, pail, pale, quail, rail, sail, sale, sangrail, scale, shale, snail, stale, swale, tail, tale, they'll, trail, upscale, vail, vale, veil, wail, wale, whale, Yale •Passchendaele • Airedale •Wensleydale • Clydesdale •Chippendale • Coverdale • Abigail •galingale • martingale • nightingale •farthingale • Windscale • timescale •blackmail • airmail •email, female •Ishmael • voicemail • vermeil

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