- a variation of bail.
bale
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"A big bale of hay was £10 around 30 years ago, now it's £90. Livery costs were static for around 20 years before owners started putting up prices two years ago," she added.
From BBC ● Jul. 3, 2026
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
Tracye also has a vivid memory of sitting on a bale of hay to watch her mother belly dance at Pleasure Faire.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 7, 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
Nancy took a handful of clean hay off the bale.
From "Pony Problems: Nancy Drew and the Clue Crew, #3" by Carolyn Keene
"The pretence is that baled tyres are being sent to India and then shredded and granulated in a factory very similar to ours," explains Mr Mason.
From BBC ● Mar. 25, 2025
He baled hay, trimmed Christmas trees and otherwise worked on his family’s farm.
From New York Times ● Apr. 19, 2024
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
Alfalfa was cut and baled for ranches across the Southwest.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 3, 2021
After Palestine, when the cotton was in, baled and spoken for, Joe got married and worked even harder.
From "Jazz" by Toni Morrison
The Florida Panthers professional hockey team bought its own baling machine last year, a $30,000 investment that also included two shipping containers.
From Barron's ● Jun. 17, 2026
He learned the ropes early and spent his childhood cleaning grain bins, baling hay and feeding the livestock.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 15, 2026
"We got some really good ones of raking up and baling," Miss Burke said.
From BBC ● Aug. 4, 2025
As a young man in the 1980s, Jay, a farm boy with a golden tan and muscles chiseled from hay baling and house building, went to Washington to visit a friend.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 9, 2023
A man collected this waste paper and took it away for baling.
From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith
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