Bale
Defined in 2 dictionaries — Bouvier (1914), Black's (1910)
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia
John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914
A quantity or pack of goods or merchandise, wrapped or packed in cloth and tightly corded. Wharton. A bale of cotton means a bale compressed so as to occupy less space than if in; 2 Car. & P. 525.
Black's Law Dictionary
Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910
A pack or certain quantity of goods or merchandise, wrapped or packed up in cloth and corded round very tightly, marked and numbered with figures corresponding to those in the bills of lading for the purpose ©f identification. Wharton. A bale of cotton is a certain quantity of that commodity compressed into a cubical form, so as to oceupy less room than when in bags. 2 Car. & P. 525. Penrice v. Co.cks, 2 Miss. 229. But see Bonham v. Railroad Co., 16 S. C. 634.