Definition/Meaning of bale

• English - Noun: bale (uncountable) (uncountable) Evil , especially considered as an active force for destruction or death. (uncountable) Suffering , woe , torment . c. 1608–1609 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Coriolanus”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i],…
• English - Verb: bale (third-person singular simple present bales, present participle baling, simple past and past participle baled) (transitive) To wrap into a bale. bale (third-person singular simple present bales, present participle baling, simple past and past participle baled) (UK) To remove water from a boat with buckets etc.
• English - See also: Bale in the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica .
• English - Anagrams: Abel , able , albe , Elba
• English - Etymology: Etymology 1. From Middle English bale (“evil”), from Old English bealu , from Proto-West Germanic *balu, from Proto-Germanic *balwą. Cognate with Low German bal- (“bad, ill”), Gothic (balweins, “torture”), Old High German balo (“destruction”), Old Norse bǫl (“disaster”). Etymology 2. From Middle English bale (“pyre, funeral pyre”), from Old English bǣl (“pyre, funeral pyre”), from Proto-Germanic…