bales

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As he rose, the rasping of rough jute against his cheek told him that he had fallen among bales; and a familiar, musty smell, that the bales were his own, in his own go-down, across a narrow lane from the nunnery.

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  • Once the bales were aboard, Rain and I would enter the modules and tie them down, making sure that they were securely lashed to the inside decks before we closed the hatches. —  Asimov'sSF,December2007
  • With hay bales, they try to stack them in a straight row and then put plastic fence totally around the outside.
  • The Army Corps of Engineers and dozens of students from the Snohomish High School Junior ROTC program worked together before the waters rose to drive stakes through the bales, anchoring them into a makeshift dike, keeping much of the river water inside the banks and out of homes. —  HeraldNet.com Local, Sports, Business and Entertainment News
  • This means we have to get about 200 hay bales, and that means we have to ensure that the hay bales are made without any pesticides used on them, so we can stay organic. —  Progressive Bloggers
  • Thirteen million bales of production combined with current beginning stocks estimate of 7.7 million bales results in a U.S. cotton supply in 2009-10 of 20.7 million bales, the lowest since 1998-99. —  Delta Farm Press RSS Feed
 

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