bale. Usually a cotton or hay bale, which was cotton or hay compacted into a rectangular cross section bundle and held together by wire (baling wire for hay) or steel bands (for cotton). A cotton bale typically weighed about 500 pounds and a hay bale about sixty-six pounds.
Other uses. 1  Mauli (thread), a Hindu ritual item. 2  Mouli grater, a kitchen utensil. 3  Mouli Island, one of the Loyalty Islands in New Caledonia.  Mouli, Punjab, a village in Phagwara tehsil, Punjab, India.
Oxalis stricta (common yellow oxalis). There is another plant called sheep's sorrel (sort of close to sheepshire), Rumex acetosella, a native of Europe, and a native one, Rumex hastatulus (heartwing sorrel) , that I remember as a child in East Texas chewing on the stem and that we called the plant sourweed.Here's an article about both Oxalis and Rumex.ey there Mr. Smarty Plants, just one question. As a child in east Tennessee, we picked plants called sheepshire that looked like small clover leafs and had small yellow blooms. One could chew these leaves and they had a bitter-like taste.