| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| PRONUNCIATION: |  b l |
| NOUN: | A large package of raw or finished material tightly bound with twine or wire and often wrapped: a bale of hay. | | TRANSITIVE VERB: | Inflected forms: baled, bal·ing, bales
To wrap in a bale or in bales: a machine that bales cotton. | | ETYMOLOGY: | Middle English, from Old French. See bhel-2 in Appendix I. | | OTHER FORMS: | bal er —NOUN
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| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by the Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. |
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