- (bale) a large bundle bound for storage or transport
- (bale) make into a bale; "bale hay"
- (bale) Basel: a city in northwestern Switzerland
- Bales may refer to a person: * Alison Bales (b. 1985), American basketball player * Barry Bales (b. 1969), American musician * Billy Bales (b. 1929), former British motorcycle speedway racer * Burt Bales (1917-1989), American jazz pianist * Christopher Bales (c. ...
- (Bâle) Basel or Basle (Basel, ; Bâle ; Basilea ; Basilea) is Switzerland's third most populous city with about 190,000 inhabitants. Located where the Swiss, French and German borders meet, Basel also has suburbs in France and Germany. ...
- Balé is one of the 45 provinces of Burkina Faso, located in its Boucle du Mouhoun Region with Boromo as capital. Its area is 4,595 km², and in 2006 had a population of 213,897. ...
- (Bale (Konjic)) Bale is a village in the municipality of Konjic, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
- (Bale (Polska)) Bale is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Mokobody, within Siedlce County, Masovian Voivodeship, in east-central Poland. It lies approximately north-west of Siedlce and east of Warsaw.
- (Bale (town)) Bale (Valle d'Istria, Castrum Vallis, Vale) is a small town and municipality in Istria, Croatia.
- (bale) Evil, especially considered as an active force for destruction or death; Suffering, woe, torment; To wrap into a bale
- (Bale) Banded lifts of pipe.
- (Bale) A bag, sack, square or oblong package into which fiber is compressed. The size and weight of a bale is variable.
- (Bale) a measurement of hay, equal to 10 “flakes”.
- (BALE) A compacted and bound cube of recycled material.
- To bale a boat, is to throw water out of her.
- (bale) In the United States , this term refers to a cube of tobacco. Flue-cured tobacco bales weigh approximately 750 pounds each. There are two types of bales for U.S. burley tobacco: unitized bales, which weigh approximately 450 pounds, and farm bales, which weigh approximately 75 pounds. ...
- (BALE) A compressed brick of marijuana, usually ranging in weight from 10 to 40 pounds.
- (BALE) A package of compressed raw cotton, weighing, for American cotton, about 500 lbs.; for Egyptian, 700 lbs.; Brazilian, 250 lbs.; and East Indian, 400 lbs.
- (BALE) Metal ring on a boom, pole or mast used to attach blocks or shackles
- (Bale (of Silk) ») A defined quantity of raw silk. A Japanese or Shanghai bale is the same as a Picul and contains 60 kilograms. A European bale would be 100 kg; Canton bale 48 kg of raw silk. Indian bale may be 20 kg.
- (Bale) A compacted and bound bundle of straw, hay silage etc. May be square or round varying in size from 30 kg to 100kg.
- (Bale) A compacted package of finished bulk bags. Normally, this will be 100 units to a bale.
- (Bale) A container (bag, sack, square, box, package) of anywhere from 650-850 lbs. of staple fibers, wrapped and ready to be shipped to the yarn spinner or carpet mill with yarn-spinning capacity.
- (Bale) A large block of crushed PET bottles held together tightly with plastic strapping. Recycled PET bales can hold more than 9,600 bottles and weigh more than 1,200 pounds each.
- (Bale) A large compressed, bound, and often wrapped bundle of a commodity, such as cotton or hay.