Meaning & use
bales
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large bundles of material, such as hay, cotton, or paper, tightly bound together for storage or transport
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The farmer stacked bales of hay in the barn before winter.
Recycled paper is compressed into bales before being shipped to the mill.
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Plural of 'bale'; also used as a verb ('to bale hay') meaning to compress material into these bundles.
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