Definitions for Bale

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Bale bale

Spelling: [beyl]

IPA: /beɪl/

Bale is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 39 anagrams from letters in Bale (abel).

Definitions for Bale

noun

1. a large bundle or package prepared for shipping, storage, or sale, especially one tightly compressed and secured by wires, hoops, cords, or the like, and sometimes having a wrapping or covering:
2. a group of turtles.
3. evil; harm; misfortune.
4. woe; misery; sorrow.
5. bail2 .
6. French name of Basel.
7. the semicircular handle of a kettle or pail.
8. a hooplike support, as for the canvas cover on a Conestoga wagon.
9. a metal band or bar equipped with rollers for holding a sheet or sheets of paper against the platen of a printing press, typewriter, etc.
10. Also, bailer. a bucket, dipper, or other container used for bailing.

Verb phrases

1. bail out, to make a parachute jump from an airplane. to relieve or assist (a person, company, etc.) in an emergency situation, especially a financial crisis: to give up on or abandon something, as to evade a responsibility:

verb (used with object)

1. to make or form into bales:
2. to dip (water) out of a boat, as with a bucket.
3. to clear of water by dipping (usually followed by out):

verb (used without object)

1. to bail water.

verb (used with or without object)

1. bail3 (defs 1–3).

Origin of Bale

1350-1400; Middle English Anglo-Latin bala, Anglo-French bale pack, bale Frankish *balla; compare Old High German balo, akin to balla ball¹

Examples for Bale

Weinberg was 56 and his wife 48 when the 1980 Abscam sting went down, whereas bale is 39 and Lawrence 23.

According to bale, Moses was “one of the most barbaric individuals that I ever read about in my life.”

I have entrusted my bale to Leonhard Tucher and given over my white cloth to him.

Folk of the land it had lapped in flame, with bale and brand.

But bale appears to have concluded that Moses may have been more bad than good.

Then he sat down on a bale of hay and took stock of his misfortunes.

But he pulled me off the bale by the leg, and that woke me up so I sensed what he was saying.

With his anachronistic attitude toward the biblical story, bale is just following the lead of his director.

bale packed on over 40 pounds for the role, and the Academy apparently noticed.

My lawyer tells me, that every bale and every part of the bales must be equal to the sample.