bale
pronunciation
How to pronounce bale in British English:
UK [beɪl]
How to pronounce bale in American English:
US [bel]
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- Noun:
- a large bundle bound for storage or transport
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- Verb:
- make into a bale
Word Origin
- bale (n.)
- "large bundle or package," early 14c., from Old French bale "rolled-up bundle," from Frankish or some other Germanic source (such as Old High German balla "ball"), from Proto-Germanic *ball-, from PIE *bhel- (2) "to blow, swell" (see bole).
Example
- 1. Bale has dismissed suggestions that the film is anti-japanese propaganda .
- 2. When they made a movie about me , they hired christian bale to play me .
- 3. Those are just my experience of the world on a bale .
- 4. We find every bale weighs short .
- 5. The changing shape of political careers has encouraged dissent , too , says tim bale , a political scientist .