Usually means: Bundle of compressed hay, straw.
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  1. Bale, bale: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. bale, bale, bale: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. bale, bale: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. bale: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Bale, bale: Vocabulary.com
  6. Bale, bale: Wordnik
  7. bale: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Bale, bale: Wiktionary
  9. bale: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. bale: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. bale: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Bale, bale: Dictionary.com
  13. bale: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. bale: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Bale (disambiguation), Bale (town), Bale: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Bale: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. bale: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. bale: Rhymezone
  19. Bale: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. bale: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. Bale: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  22. bale: Free Dictionary
  23. bale: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. bale: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Epicurus.com Coffee Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Glossary of Stamp Collecting Terms (No longer online)

Business (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Abbreviations in shipping (No longer online)
  2. bale: Legal dictionary
  3. Glossary of Trade and Shipping Terms (No longer online)
  4. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. bale: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. bale: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Sound-Alike Words (No longer online)
  2. BALE: Acronym Finder
  3. bale: Idioms

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. How Many? A Dictionary of Units of Measurement (No longer online)

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. bale, bale: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Bale: Street Terms: Drugs and the Drug Trade
  3. Bale, the bale: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Bale: Latitude Mexico

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American English Definition British English Definition
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.
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.

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