Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One who bales, or makes up bales or bundles.
  • noun See bailer.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun A machine for creating bales, e.g., of hay or cotton.
  • noun A person who creates bales, either by operating or feeding such a machine, or by creating the bales by hand.

Etymologies

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From bale + -er.

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Examples

  • At his command, the man took the baler and threw salt water into his face.

    Trust 2010

  • There she was waiting in the cheap old Trago Mills cat box held together with baler twine, little hoarse pathetic yowl.

    A day at the vets...if you hate cats, skip this one 2008

  • He opened bidding on a horse-drawn forecart fitted with a small engine that would power the spinning shaft of any tractor-based tool, like a hay baler or a rotary tedder.

    The Dirty Life Kristin Kimball 2010

  • We could hear familial bickering coming from the machine shop in the evenings as the men worked on the baler.

    The Dirty Life Kristin Kimball 2010

  • The ten mile car journey can only be described as average as yet again I ponder the folly of the cheap cat box tied up with baler twine and a yowling bouncing cat that even Terry Wogan couldn't drown out.

    A day at the vets...if you hate cats, skip this one 2008

  • I slowed for a baler taking up half the gravel road.

    No Mercy Lori Armstrong 2010

  • This video appears to show a man jumping into a hay baler, and instead of dying like a normal person, he turns himself into a human bale of hay.

    Hay Baling Fun? Naked Man Turns Himself Into A Bale of Hay (VIDEO) 2010

  • The ten mile car journey can only be described as average as yet again I ponder the folly of the cheap cat box tied up with baler twine and a yowling bouncing cat that even Terry Wogan couldn't drown out.

    A day at the vets...if you hate cats, skip this one 2008

  • I'm gonna look for a turtle baler at the next farm show.

    Sobering Celebrations 2010

  • There she was waiting in the cheap old Trago Mills cat box held together with baler twine, little hoarse pathetic yowl.

    A day at the vets...if you hate cats, skip this one 2008

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  • A baler is a piece of farm machinery that is used to compress a cut and raked crop (such as hay or straw) into bales and bind the bales with twine. There are several different types of balers that are commonly used. Balers are also used in the material recycling facilities, primarily for baling plastic, paper or cardboard for transport to a recycling facility.

    _Wikipedia

    February 4, 2008

  • Like the cardboard baler at work!

    Fill it with your flattened cardboard boxes, heave the door down, then push the button to compress it all.

    August 9, 2009