baler

noun

1. a large bundle or package prepared for shipping, storage, or sale, especially one tightly compressed and secured by wires, hoops, cords, or the like, and sometimes having a wrapping or covering: a bale of cotton; a bale of hay.
2. a group of turtles.

verb (used with object), baled, bal·ing.

3. to make or form into bales: to bale wastepaper for disposal.

noun

1. an agricultural machine for making bales of hay, etcAlso called: baling machine

noun

1. a large bundle, esp of a raw or partially processed material, bound by ropes, wires, etc, for storage or transportationbale of hay
2. a large package or carton of goods
3. US 500 pounds of cotton
4. a group of turtles
5. Australian and NZ See wool bale

verb

6. to make (hay, etc) into a bale or bales
7. to put (goods) into packages or cartons
8. Australian and NZ to pack and compress (wool) into wool bales

noun archaic

1. evil; injury
2. woe; suffering; pain

verb

1. a variant spelling of bail 2

noun

1. a variant spelling of bail 4

noun

1. the French name for Basle

n.

machine that makes bales, 1888, agent noun from bale (v.).

n.

“large bundle or package,” early 14c., from Old French bale “rolled-up bundle,” from a Germanic source (cf. Old High German balla “ball”), from Proto-Germanic *ball-, from PIE *bhel- (2) “to blow, swell” (see bole).