bale
see also: Bale
Pronunciation
Bale
Proper noun Proper noun
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see also: Bale
Pronunciation
- IPA: /beɪ̯l/, [ˈbeɪ̯(ə)ɫ], [beə̯ɫ]
bale (uncountable)
- Evil, especially considered as an active force for destruction or death.
- Suffering, woe, torment.
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, VI.7:
- That other swayne, like ashes deadly pale, / Lay in the lap of death, rewing his wretched bale.
- c. 1608, William Shakespeare, Coriolanus (Act I, Scene 1):
- "Rome and her rats are at the point of battle; / The one side must have bale."
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, VI.7:
bale (plural bales)
- (obsolete) A large fire, a conflagration or bonfire.
- (archaic) A funeral pyre.
- (archaic) A beacon-fire.
bale (plural bales)
- A rounded bundle or package of goods in a cloth cover, and corded for storage or transportation.
- 1885, Richard F. Burton, The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Night 563:
- So having made up my mind, I packed up in bales a quantity of precious stuffs suited for sea-trade and repaired with them from Baghdad-city to Bassorah-town, where I found ship ready for sea, and in her a company of considerable merchants.
- 1885, Richard F. Burton, The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Night 563:
- A bundle of compressed wool or hay, compacted for shipping and handling.
- A measurement of hay equal to 10 flakes. Approximately 70-90 lbs (32-41 kg).
- A measurement of paper equal to 10 reams.
- French: botte
- Spanish: bala
bale (bales, present participle baling; past and past participle baled)
- (transitive) To wrap into a bale.
- German: paketieren
- Portuguese: enfardar
- Spanish: embalar
bale (bales, present participle baling; past and past participle baled)
Bale
Proper noun Proper noun
- A municipality in Croatia.
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