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.
yule O.E. geol, geola Christmas Day, Christmastide, from O.N. jol (pl.), a heathen feast, later taken over by Christianity, of unknown origin. The O.E. (Anglian) cognate giuli was the Anglo-Saxons' name for a two-month midwinter season corresponding to Roman December and January, a time of important feasts but not itself a festival.