Definitions for bales

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bales bale

Spelling: [beyl]

IPA: /beɪl/

Bales is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 92 anagrams from letters in bales (abels).

Definitions for bales

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 bales

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 bales

“bales is the beginning and not the end,” says Swift of the PTSD cases.

bales reportedly showed risk factors for alcohol abuse, including violent behavior while drunk.

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

Boxes, bales, parcels and packages of every sort were heaped all about.

Bless your dear heart, we can land our bales there under their very noses!

Is bales a rogue soldier with a drinking problem who went off on a killing spree?

That's the way to get rich, my lass; look after the pieces and the bales'll look after themselves.'

The fact remains, that we place the 100 bales at your disposal.

Still, the news about bales struck particularly close to home for the 27-year-old mother of three.

Whether that message resonates beyond the coverage of bales case, though, remains to be seen.