cotton bale
Compressed harvest package
A cotton bale is a large, tightly compressed bundle of raw cotton fiber, typically weighing around 500 pounds and wrapped in burlap or synthetic material for storage and transport.
Bales are the standard unit for trading cotton after harvest: The warehouse held three thousand cotton bales.
The size and weight of bales have been roughly standardized since the 19th century to facilitate commerce.
- ginnedSeed-stripped
- compressedReduced by pressure
- warehouseBulk goods storage building
- pickerOne who gathers
- fieldArea of specialty
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- cottonboll, cottonseed, fiber, gin, ginning
- farm bundlessheaf, haystack, wheat sheaf
- textile millstextile mill, textile mills, loom, woolen mill, looms
- compressed materialscompressed air, compressed gas, briquettes, charcoal briquettes, pellets
- compressed thingspellet, wood pellet, briquette, charcoal briquette, compressed air tank
- slaverychattel slavery, enslaved, slave, enslavement, slave traders
cotton baleraw cotton
Unprocessed textile fiber
cotton cloth · cotton lint · cotton thread · cotton yarn · cotton bolls
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