bale has definitions from the fields of government,geography
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[ noun ] a large bundle bound for storage or transport

Used in print

(Harold Searles, "Schizophrenic Communication,"...)

A borderline schizophrenic young man told me that to him the various theoretical concepts about which he had been expounding , in a most articulate fashion , during session after session with me , were like great cubes of almost tangibly solid matter up in the air above him ; as he spoke I was reminded of the great bales of cargo which are swung , high in the air , from a docked steamship .

Related terms

bundle hay_bale

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[ noun ] Last name, frequency rank in the U.S. is 12274
3
[ verb ] make into a bale

Examples

"bale hay"

Related terms

collect accumulate

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[ noun ] (government,geography) a city in northwestern Switzerland

Synonyms

Basle Basel

Related terms

city Switzerland

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