bale/bail

bale (bāl)

Noun

• A large package of raw or finished material tightly bound with twine or wire and often wrapped: a bale of hay.

Verb. Transitive

• To wrap in a bale or in bales: a machine that bales cotton.

bail (bāl)

Noun

• Security, usually a sum of money, exchanged for the release of an arrested person as a guarantee of that person's appearance for trial.
• Release from imprisonment provided by the payment of such money.
• A person who provides this security.

Verb. Transitive

• To secure the release of by providing security.
• To release (a person) for whom security has been paid.
• Informal. To extricate from a difficult situation: always bailing you out of trouble.
• To transfer (property) to another for a special purpose but without permanent transference of ownership.