bail
- 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.
- Noun. (legal, UK) Release from imprisonment on payment of such money.
- Noun. (legal, UK) The person providing such payment.
- Noun. A bucket or scoop used for removing water from a boat etc.
- Verb. To secure the release of an arrested person by providing bail.
- Verb. (legal) To release a person under such guarantee.
- Verb. To set free.
- Verb. (legal) To hand over personal property to be held temporarily by another as a bailment.
- Verb. (nautical) To remove water from a boat by scooping it out.
- Verb. (slang) To exit quickly.
- Verb. (rfv-sense) (slang) To not attend.
- Verb. (informal) To fail to meet a commitment.
- 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. (context, mainly) A frame to restrain a cow during milking.
- 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. (context, furniture) Normally curved handle suspended between sockets as a drawer pull. This may also be on a kettle or pail, as the wire bail handle shown in the drawing.
- 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) To keep (a traveller) detained in order to rob them; to corner (a wild animal); loosely, to detain, hold up. (Usually with (term, up) .).
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