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a thousand pounds of summer compressed into a brick you'll throw all winter
means A bale is a large bundle of material—hay, cotton, paper, wool—tightly packed and bound for storage or transport.
from From Old French 'bale,' meaning a package or bundle, which traces back to a Germanic root (compare Old High German 'balla,' a ball or round mass) that also gives us the word 'ball.' The thread that ties them together is the idea of something rounded up and packed tight—so a bale of hay and a ball of yarn are distant cousins, both descended from the notion of stuff gathered into a bundle.
- round vs square
- round bales shed rain; square ones stack like bricks
- weight
- a large round bale can top 1,500 pounds
- fire risk
- wet hay self-heats and spontaneously combusts barns
- old meaning
- a bale once meant a bundle of evil
- cotton standard
- one cotton bale runs about 480 pounds
gareth bale — welsh footballer who played for real madrid, won 5 champions league titles, transferred for €100 million in 2013
christian bale — british-american actor, starred in dark knight trilogy, won academy award for the fighter in 2011