0 a large amount of something such as hay, paper, wool, or cloth that has been tied tightly together
1 to bail
3 a large amount of something such as hay (= dry grass), paper, wool, or cloth that has been tied tightly together
4 a large amount of something such as paper, wool, or cloth that has been tied tightly together:
They refused to feed their cattle baled hay for fear of disease.
Five bales from each site were split to obtain a random sample of c. 1 kg of hay from each bale for accurate weighing.
The 'north' microsite was located at the base of the north bale on its north side.
Both total costs per hectare and cost per bale were calculated.
I am to suppose myself a bale of rags.
It can therefore be difficult to achieve the straw moisture contents of less than 200 mg/g that are required prior to cutting and baling.
The teachers and pupils waited in the school courtyard to help the farmers unload several hundred bales of straw.
Since then, the programme has received financial bale-outs and has undergone a series of largely failed reform efforts.