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A large fire, a conflagration or bonfire.
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A funeral pyre.
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A beacon-fire.
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A rounded bundle or package of goods in a cloth cover, and corded for storage or transportation.
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A bundle of compressed wool or hay, compacted for shipping and handling.
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A measurement of hay equal to 10 flakes. Approximately 70-90 lbs (32-41 kg).
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A measurement of paper equal to 10 reams.
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To remove water from a boat with buckets etc.
Examples of bales in a Sentence
You have to tie the bales by hand, though.
The cotton leaves the ginning machine in a very loose condition, and has to be compressed into bales for convenience of transport.
With a capacity for the production of cotton almost boundless, the crop which was so insignificant when the century began had in 1860 reached the enormous extent of 4,824,000 bales.
The use of domestic cotton increased from 485,024 bales in 1900 to 555,467 bales in 1905, and the amount paid for this cotton increased from $14,909,520 to $30,451,159.
The area devoted to this crop in 1879 was 14,480,019 acres, and the-total commercial crop was 5,755,359 bales.
In 1899 the acreage had increased to 24,275,101 and the crop to 9,507,786 bales.
In 1906 the total area was 28,686,000 acres and the crop 13,305,265 bales.
The annual export is about 30,000 bales.
An estimate of the crop puts it at about 1,500,000 bales.
The production of cotton in Russia in 1906 was estimated at 675,000 bales of Soo lb each.
According to the Liverpool Cotton Gazette, Asiatic Turkey produced in 1906 about ioo,000 bales, and Persia about 47,000 bales.
Queensland, New South Wales and South Australia possess suitable climatic conditions, and in the first-named state the cotton has been grown on a commercial scale in past years, the crop in 1897 being about 450 bales.
The industry has, however, been revived, and in 1906 over ioo bales, valued at £1052, were exported.
The bales are usually square, but cylindrical bales are becoming more common, though their cost is greater.
These official prices are sometimes prices actually paid, and sometimes prices settled by 1 Transactions of too bales only.
In 1907 the acreage (265,000 acres) was less than in any cotton-growing state except Missouri and Virginia; the crop for 1907-1908 was 49,794 bales.
Cotton is the principal crop. In 1907 Louisiana ranked eighth in acreage of cotton (1,622,000 acres) among the states of the United States, and in1907-1908the cotton crop (675,428 bales) was eighth among the crops of the states.
The crop of 1907 was 201,512 bales (109,562,400 lb Sp.).
In January and February 1865 no less than 20 steamers arrived at Nassau, importing 14,182 bales of cotton,, valued at £554,675.
When fermentation is completed the tobacco is graded, an operation carried out very carefully in the case of the better cigar tobaccos, and packed for export, cigar tobaccos in bales, and other kinds in hogsheads.
The leaves are graded with the most scrupulous care and finally packed in bales of about 176 lb each.
There is an immense granary and a wool warehouse with capacity for 40,000 bales.
Texas ranked first in 1899 among the states in the production and value of cotton, the acreage of which increased from 2,178,435 acres in 1879 to 6,960,367 acres in 1899, and the number of commercial bales from.
The estimates for 1909 were 9,334,000 acres and 2,570,000 bales.
On the 18th the assault was renewed, and on the 10th the Confederates, advancing behind movable breastworks of water-soaked bales of hemp, forced the besieged, now long without water, to surrender.
Mississippi river steamers were armed with heavy guns and protected by armour, boiler-plates, cotton bales, &c., and some fast cruisers were constructed for ocean work, one of them actually reaching the high speed of 17.75 m.
There was a disastrous fire in 1829, an epidemic of yellow fever in 1839, and a flood in 1840, but the growth of the city was not seriously checked; the cotton receipts of 1846 were 212,019 bales, and in 1847 a cotton factory was built.
Cotton has always been the principal source of wealth, the amount of its exports at Mobile increasing from 7000 bales in 1818 to 25,000 bales in 1821, and the total product of the state in 1840 being double that of 1830.
The success of the economic system was such that in 1860 the cotton crop of Alabama was nearly 1,000,000 bales (9 8 9,955 bales), being 18.4% of the entire cotton product of the United States.
The disorganization of labour resulting from the Civil War and the emancipation of slaves, was the cause of a temporary decline in the cotton crop. In 1889 the crop again approximated to 1,000,000 bales (915,210 bales, being 12.2% of the entire crop of the United States), and in 1899 it exceeded that amount, Alabama being fourth among the states of the entire country.
In 1899-1904 the crop exceeded that of the other cotton-producing states except Texas, and in 1899, 1900 and 1903 Mississippi, averaging 1,467,121 commercial bales per annum; the crop in 1904 was 1,991,719 bales, and in 1907-1908 the crop was 1,815,834 bales, second only to the crop of Texas.
An idea of the extent of the growth of the fibre may be gathered from the fact that the exports for 1905 amounted to 28,877 bales at a value of nearly £700,000.
The defendants were poor smugglers from the Esthonian border marshes, who in the course of their ordinary avocations had carried bales of revolutionary tracts into Russia without troubling as to their contents.
Situated in the heart of the "Cotton Belt," Macon has a large and lucrative trade; it is one of the most important inland cotton markets of the United States, its annual receipts averaging about 250,000 bales.
It soon became the centre of trade for Middle Georgia; in 1833 a steamboat line to Darien was opened, and in the following year 69,000 bales of cotton were shipped by this route.
According to some authorities, especially Hodges, the plague was imported into London by bales of merchandise from Holland, which came originally from the Levant; according to others it was introduced by Dutch prisoners of war; but Boghurst regarded it as of local origin.
The amount of the cotton crop in 1909 was 10,000 50o-lb bales.
The jute is carefully sorted into different qualities, and then each lot is subjected to an enormous hydraulic pressure from which it emerges in the shape of the well-known bales, each weighing 400 lb.
Three bales per acre, or 1200 lb is termed a loo% crop, but the usual quantity obtained is about 2.6 bales per acre.
Sometimes the crop is stated in lakhs of ioo,000 bales each.
The crop in 1906 reached nearly 9,000,000 bales, and in 1907 nearly 10,000,000 was reached.
These fine Rio hessian yarns form an important branch of the Dundee trade, and in some weeks during 1906 as many as 1000 bales were despatched to Brazil, besides numerous quantities to other parts of the world.
The number of bales for a batch seldom exceeds twelve, indeed it is generally about six, and of these there may be three, four or even more varieties or marks.
The layers from the different bales are laid upon the feed cloth which carries them up to the rollers, between which the layers are crushed and partly separated.
Winter wheat is used extensively for pasturage during the winter months with little or no damage to the crop. No other branch of agriculture in Oklahoma has advanced so rapidly as the production of cotton; the culture of this fibre was introduced in 1890, and the acreage increased from 682,743 acres in 1899 to 2,037,000 acres in 1909, and the yield increased from 227,741 bales to 617,000 bales (in 1907 it was 862,383 bales).
Cotton is the state's most valuable crop. The cotton product of the state in 1889 was 747, 1 9 0 bales, in 1899 it was 881,422 bales, and in 1909, 1,095,000 bales.
In the same period the amount of foreign cotton used increased from 210 bales in 1900 to 2633 bales in 1905, and the amount paid for it from $20,026 in 1900 to $318,020 in 1905.
The building is essentially an open shed, with piles of grass and stacked hay bales among equipment.
Bought in this state, the wool arrived in 150 Kg hessian wrapped bales (not very moveable ).
The first terrier through the straw bales was the winning terrier.