bale
Barn-stored bundle
A bale is a large bundle of material—hay, cotton, wool, paper—compressed and bound for storage or transport.
The verb bale means to form such bundles: We spent the afternoon baling hay.
In a different sense, to bale (or bail) out means to remove water from a boat or to escape from an aircraft by parachute.
A bale can also be great suffering or sorrow, though this literary usage is rare outside poetry.
Dried feed crop
- strawTube for sipping
- cottonPlant fiber for textiles
- twineStranded cord for tying
- sheafBound bundle of stalks
stack · compress · bind · tie · package · secure · wrap · gather
Piled dried grass
- harvestGathering mature crops
- fodderCoarse livestock nourishment
- forageSeek food actively
- threshingExtracting grain from stalks
combine · pasture · silage · livestock · feed · hayloft · mow · pitchfork
Great sorrow or distress
- calamitySevere misfortune or disaster
- disasterSudden ruinous event
- evilProfound moral wickedness
- harmInjury or damage
destruction · ruin · torment · curse · doom · malevolence · suffering · anguish
hay
Dried feed crop
sheaf · stack · compress · bind · tie · package · secure · wrap · gather · roll
haystack
Piled dried grass
threshing · combine · pasture · silage · livestock · feed · hayloft · mow · pitchfork · wagon
woe
Great sorrow or distress
harm · destruction · ruin · torment · curse · doom · malevolence · suffering · anguish · grief
cargo
Transported goods
haulage · shipping · consignment · lading · dock · warehouse · forklift · pallet · stacking · export
ton
Heavy mass unit
bulk · mass · density · scale · measurement · standard · metric · imperial · hundredweight
- hay balesCompressed dried grass blocks
- Christian Bale
- bale outAbandon aircraft by parachute
- straw baleBound dried grain stalks
- bubble gum and baling wire
- baling wireWire for bundling hay
bales, baleful, baler, baling, balefully, baled, balers, unbaled, balefire