Bale
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[edit] Places
- Basel, the Swiss city, for which the French name is Bâle
- Bale, Istria, Croatia
- Balé Province, Burkina Faso
- Bale Province, Ethiopia, a former province in Ethiopia
- Bale Zone in Oromia, Ethiopia
- Bale, Norfolk in England
[edit] People
- Christian Bale, English actor
- Edward Turner Bale, English physician
- John Bale, English churchman and playwright
- Gareth Bale, Young Welsh footballer for Southampton F.C.
[edit] Industrial packaging
- in farming, a bundle of hay or straw bound by a baler
- paper bale, a unit of paper measurement equal to ten reams
- compressed package of any one of a variety of textiles, such as
[edit] Other
- Akar-Bale language
- bale, an archaic synonym for evil
- bale, a bale of turtles, which is a group of turtles.
- to "bale out" is to exit an airborne aircraft while wearing a parachute (presumably from the resemblance of a backpack parachute to a hay bale)
[edit] See also
- Bail, a homophone of and often confused with "bale"