Definition for BALE

BALE, n. [Sax. beal, bealo. Qu. Heb. Ch. Syr. and Ar. אבל, to grieve or mourn, to be desolate, or חבל, to destroy. In Ir. beala is to die, and abail, death.]

Misery; calamity. [Obs.]

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