bale

verb, make up into bales (COD)

“I remember the haying in the early years. We used to just pick it up with a hay-loader in the field, loose without baling it.”

“That wasn’t very good hay you were baling up.”

“You mowed it. You raked it. You helped baling it and putting it in the barn.”

“Mrs. Smith went over that morning. She’s out baling hay that morning.”

“The one time I was baling over there, and then the baler quit on me.”

“My dad had what they called the old fashioned hay-press for baling big square bales of hay.”

“Yes, baling I did. I baled too.”

“The hay we done baling with Tom on shares. He used the baler, and we done all the work.”

“My grandfather actually started the farm on the Island, and in the wintertime farmers would augment their income by baling up these big bales of hay called pressing, and they’d bale up the loose hay that they put in the barn.”