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• Bale

  ·vt To make up in a bale. II. Bale ·vt ·see <<Bail>>, ·vt, to lade. III. Bale ·noun Misery; calami...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• bale

  TO BAIL, OR BALE Literally, to lade out with a bail or bucket. A sailor's term, applied to lading w...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

• Bale, John

  (1495-1563) Historian and controversialist, b. at Cove, Suffolk, and ed. as a Carmelite friar, but ...

  Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John W. Cousin

• bale, to

  To lade water out of a ship or vessel with buckets (which were of old called bayles), cans, or the l...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• bale goods

  Merchandise packed in large bundles, not in cases or casks. ...

  The Sailor's Word-Book