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baler

British

/ ˈbeɪlə /

noun

Also called: baling machine. an agricultural machine for making bales of hay, etc

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After a customer picks out a tree, workers remove loose needles and wrap it in a web of twine using a baler machine.

From New York Times • Dec. 18, 2023

A computer animation by the Health and Safety Executive showed how employees were expected to hang from a rope above the baler while clearing blockages.

From BBC • Jul. 15, 2022

A third team hauled each tree through a baler that wrapped them tightly with twine for safe transport.

From Washington Post • Dec. 21, 2021

Galvanized roofing, she tells me, is chopped into small pieces and put into the baler for shipping to a recycler in Florida.

From The Guardian • Nov. 20, 2017

There was a class system in the Bureau engendered by the cutter, printer, paster, paper baler, and delivery boy.

From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith

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