ten-bale

Updated: June 22, 2025

Not that they confine their labors to textile fabrics. Their iron fingers are in every pie, including that of the printer, who is answered, when he calls the roll of his serfs of steam, by 691 whistles. And he is one of the smallest of the slaveholders a mere ten-bale man.

Various - Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science : Volume 17, No. 098, February, 1876