Definitions from Wiktionary (Bail)
▸ noun: (countable, uncountable) Security, usually a sum of money, exchanged for the release of an arrested person as a guarantee of that person's appearance for trial.
▸ noun: (law, UK) Release from imprisonment on payment of such money.
▸ noun: (law, UK) The person providing such payment.
▸ noun: A bucket or scoop used for removing water from a boat etc.
▸ noun: A person who bails water out of a boat.
▸ noun: (obsolete) Custody; keeping.
▸ verb: To secure the release of an arrested person by providing bail.
▸ verb: (law) To release a person under such guarantee.
▸ verb: (law) To hand over personal property to be held temporarily by another as a bailment.
▸ verb: (nautical, transitive, intransitive) To remove (water) from a boat by scooping it out.
▸ verb: (nautical, transitive) To remove water from (a boat) by scooping it out.
▸ verb: To set free; to deliver; to release.
▸ verb: (intransitive, slang) To leave or exit abruptly.
▸ verb: (intransitive, informal) To fail to meet a commitment (to a person). [with on ‘someone’]
▸ noun: A hoop, ring or handle (especially of a kettle or bucket).
▸ noun: A stall for a cow (or other animal) (usually tethered with a semi-circular hoop).
▸ noun: A hinged bar as a restraint for animals, or on a typewriter.
▸ noun: (chiefly Australia and New Zealand) A frame to restrain a cow during milking or feeding.
▸ noun: A hoop, ring, or other object used to connect a pendant to a necklace.
▸ noun: (cricket) One of the two wooden crosspieces that rest on top of the stumps to form a wicket.
▸ noun: (furniture) Normally curved handle suspended between sockets as a drawer pull. This may also be on a kettle or pail.
▸ verb: To secure the head of a cow during milking.
▸ verb: (rare) To confine.
▸ verb: (Australia, New Zealand) To secure (a cow) by placing its head in a bail for milking.
▸ verb: (Australia, New Zealand, usually with up) To keep (a traveller) detained in order to rob them; to corner (a wild animal); loosely, to detain, hold up.
▸ noun: A surname.
▸ Also see bail
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▸ noun: (countable, uncountable) Security, usually a sum of money, exchanged for the release of an arrested person as a guarantee of that person's appearance for trial.
▸ noun: (law, UK) Release from imprisonment on payment of such money.
▸ noun: (law, UK) The person providing such payment.
▸ noun: A bucket or scoop used for removing water from a boat etc.
▸ noun: A person who bails water out of a boat.
▸ noun: (obsolete) Custody; keeping.
▸ verb: To secure the release of an arrested person by providing bail.
▸ verb: (law) To release a person under such guarantee.
▸ verb: (law) To hand over personal property to be held temporarily by another as a bailment.
▸ verb: (nautical, transitive, intransitive) To remove (water) from a boat by scooping it out.
▸ verb: (nautical, transitive) To remove water from (a boat) by scooping it out.
▸ verb: To set free; to deliver; to release.
▸ verb: (intransitive, slang) To leave or exit abruptly.
▸ verb: (intransitive, informal) To fail to meet a commitment (to a person). [with on ‘someone’]
▸ noun: A hoop, ring or handle (especially of a kettle or bucket).
▸ noun: A stall for a cow (or other animal) (usually tethered with a semi-circular hoop).
▸ noun: A hinged bar as a restraint for animals, or on a typewriter.
▸ noun: (chiefly Australia and New Zealand) A frame to restrain a cow during milking or feeding.
▸ noun: A hoop, ring, or other object used to connect a pendant to a necklace.
▸ noun: (cricket) One of the two wooden crosspieces that rest on top of the stumps to form a wicket.
▸ noun: (furniture) Normally curved handle suspended between sockets as a drawer pull. This may also be on a kettle or pail.
▸ verb: To secure the head of a cow during milking.
▸ verb: (rare) To confine.
▸ verb: (Australia, New Zealand) To secure (a cow) by placing its head in a bail for milking.
▸ verb: (Australia, New Zealand, usually with up) To keep (a traveller) detained in order to rob them; to corner (a wild animal); loosely, to detain, hold up.
▸ noun: A surname.
▸ Also see bail
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