- a variation of bail.
bale
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It is now able to bale its own aluminum, cardboard, and other materials used and discarded at the arena from event days and gets a rebate from Waste Management for taking it off their hands.
From Barron's ● Jun. 17, 2026
To visualize microscopic asbestos fibers in talcum powder, he brought a bale of hay into a courtroom and dropped a needle into the blades.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 28, 2026
Dente’s Verdant Structural Engineers was involved with getting straw bale approved as a building material and — along with advocates like Loescher — is pushing for the adoption of more nature-based materials into the code.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 28, 2025
Many UK businesses will bale tyres and send them to India because it is more profitable and investing in shredding machinery is expensive, according to Mr Mason.
From BBC ● Mar. 25, 2025
Kin settled onto his bale with a groan.
From Anya and the Dragon by Sofiya Pasternack
Like all dairy farmers, Gordon uses the good weather in spring and summer to grow and cut silage - grass that will be baled and used as fodder for the herd over winter.
From BBC ● Feb. 26, 2026
If your balcony is on the breezy side, you can protect your plants by putting them behind tightly baled straw, or you can create a windbreak by securing burlap to the railing.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 30, 2021
His fields produce cotton that is exported, alfalfa that is trucked to dairies in California, Bermuda grass that is baled to feed horses, and honeydews and other melons that are sold in supermarkets.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 10, 2021
The question has been raised repeatedly in South Carolina when radioactive waste, toxic chemical waste, medical waste and out-of-state household waste - baled or incinerated - have been transported here.
From Washington Times ● May 9, 2018
After Palestine, when the cotton was in, baled and spoken for, Joe got married and worked even harder.
From "Jazz" by Toni Morrison
Upstairs, children pore over schoolbooks, mothers prepare lunch and television sets flicker in cramped living rooms, all against the constant background noise of shredders whining and baling presses pounding below.
From Barron's ● Jul. 18, 2026
In a noticeable moment from “Cow,” a farmer baling hay strikes his pitchfork against a stone.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 4, 2025
S&W Atlas Iron & Metal had processed scrap metal in Watts since 1949, shredding and baling aluminum cans, steel rims and copper wire.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 24, 2025
"We got some really good ones of raking up and baling," Miss Burke said.
From BBC ● Aug. 4, 2025
“You in Hob now,” Moses told Cora one afternoon when she came in from helping with the baling.
From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead
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