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.
Regional varieties. Boortsog, called piÅi or tuzlu lokma (sour lokma) in Turkish, which is Lokma without any sweet syrup or honey, is a staple food for Turkic and Mongolian cuisines. Lokma in the form of a dessert is made with flour, sugar, yeast and salt, fried in oil and later bathed in syrup or honey. Lokma is first described as part of Turkish cuisine in the 9th century Kara-Khanid Khanate.