Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A Middle English form of
balas .
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- noun Plural form of
bale .
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Examples
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* Production on alpaca farm measured in bales of cuteness.
Boing Boing 2009
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Or even if you could get a few square bales from a farmer they will be like 2 bucks apiece and work great.
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Or even if you could get a few square bales from a farmer they will be like 2 bucks apiece and work great.
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In the long ago, when I was a girl on the Chilcat, I played alone among the skin bales of my father's lodge; for the men were away on the hunt, and the women and boys were dragging in the meat.
GRIT OF WOMEN 2010
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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
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Our needs are of 20,000 kgs minimum a month of white color or black color in bales of this item.
[hprasla] Products directly from China at factory prices 2003
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"They foresaw my wisdom of the skin - bales and fled away into the cave!"
The Sunlanders 1902
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In the long ago, when I was a girl on the Chilcat, I played alone among the skin bales of my father's lodge; for the men were away on the hunt, and the women and boys were dragging in the meat.
Grit of Women 1901
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In the long ago, when I was a girl on the Chilcat, I played alone among the skin bales of my father's lodge; for the men were away on the hunt, and the women and boys were dragging in the meat.
Grit of Women 1900
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Big Hole, or the Deer house plains; consequently the Indians, during their stay here, subsist on dried meat, which they transport in bales of forty pounds or more, upon horses, from the buffalo range, or the haunts of deer and big horn, which are found on the neighboring mountains.
chained_bear commented on the word bales
Captured at Yorktown, "2 bales soal leather," as well as "10 1/2 hides tanned leather."
October 29, 2007