Bale

Quick meaning: Bale is a noun meaning Evil, especially considered as an active force for destruction or death.

Meaning

Evil, especially considered as an active force for destruction or death.

More Meanings

1. Suffering, woe, torment.
2. A rounded bundle or package of goods in a cloth cover, and corded for storage or transportation.
3. A bundle of compressed fibers (especially hay, straw, cotton, or wool), compacted for shipping and handling and bound by twine or wire.
4. A measurement of hay equal to 10 flakes. Approximately 70-90 lbs (32-41 kg).
5. (obsolete) A large fire, a conflagration or bonfire.
6. (archaic) A funeral pyre.
7. (archaic) A beacon-fire.

Example Sentences

Rome, and her Rats, are at the point of battell, The one ſide muſt haue baile.

That other ſwayne, like aſhes deadly pale, Lay in the lap of death, rewing his wretched bale.

Ffor if you wold comfort me with a kisse, Then were I brought ffrom bale to blisse, Noe longer here wold I lye.

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.

Word Forms

• bales
• baling
• baled

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include bunch, bundle, packaging, package, packing, ball.

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