embale

From French emballer. See bale.

• IPA^(key): /ɪmˈbeɪl/

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• Rhymes: -eɪl

embale (third-person singular simple present embales, present participle embaling, simple past and past participle embaled)

1. (obsolete, transitive) To bind up; to pack, or bundle up into a pack.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto III”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 27:

     legs […] embayld in gilden buskins

• “embale”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• Ambele, mabele

embale

1. inflection of embalar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

• IPA^(key): /emˈbale/ [ẽmˈba.le]
• Rhymes: -ale
• Syllabification: em‧ba‧le

embale

1. inflection of embalar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative