bale
Example Sentences
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Like all dairy farmers, Gordon uses the good weather in spring and summer to grow and cut silage - grass that will be baled and used as fodder for the herd over winter.
From BBC
Walking over to the hardware part of the store, Grandpa picked up six small steel traps and a piece of baling wire.
From Literature
With the hip replacements, he’s limber enough to climb into the large machinery needed to harvest crops, spray pesticides, plant seeds and move hay bales that weigh roughly 1,000 pounds each.
She perched herself on a hay bale and said, “I can wait.”
From Literature
When the rodeo comes to town, the bank puts out bales of hay and a saddle to celebrate.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
