Unfortunately, you can't hold together a high-tech oil drilling economy with baling wire and chewing gum.
Then in or near the cotton field the process of baling is carried out.
Thus there are collecting, ginning and baling, as preliminary processes.
To him it was a baling tin; here there were no boats to be baled out—where was the use of it?
The others made no trouble as Izzy bound them with baling wire.
Our situation was now extremely dangerous, the sea frequently running over our stern, which kept us baling with all our strength.
I ought to hold that sheet in my hand, but I want both for baling.
He and the doctor set the example by baling away as hard as any of us.
Our chief work was now to keep the men at the pumps and baling.
While we were thus engaged the boys were pumping and baling.
"bond money," late 15c., a sense that apparently developed from that of "temporary release from jail" (into the custody of another, who gives security), recorded from early 15c. That evolved from earlier meaning "captivity, custody" (early 14c.). From Old French baillier "to control, to guard, deliver" (12c.), from Latin bajulare "to bear a burden," from bajulus "porter," of unknown origin. In late 18c. criminal slang, to give leg bail meant "to run away."
"to dip water out of," 1610s, from baile (n.) "small wooden bucket" (mid-14c.), from nautical Old French baille "bucket, pail," from Medieval Latin *bajula (aquae), literally "porter of water," from Latin bajulare "to bear a burden" (see bail (n.1)). To bail out "leave suddenly" (intransitive) is recorded from 1930, originally of airplane pilots. Related: Bailed; bailing.
"large bundle or package," early 14c., from Old French bale "rolled-up bundle," from a Germanic source (cf. Old High German balla "ball"), from Proto-Germanic *ball-, from PIE *bhel- (2) "to blow, swell" (see bole).
"horizontal piece of wood in a cricket wicket," c.1742, originally "any cross bar" (1570s), probably identical with Middle French bail "horizontal piece of wood affixed on two stakes," and with English bail "palisade wall, outer wall of a castle" (see bailey).
"to procure someone's release from prison" (by posting bail), 1580s, from bail (n.1); usually with out. Related: Bailed; bailing.
