Definitions
1.verbTo secure the release of an arrested person by providing bail.
2.verbTo release a person under such guarantee.
3.verbTo hand over personal property to be held temporarily by another as a bailment."to bail cloth to a tailor to be made into a garment; to bail goods to a carrier"
4.verbTo remove (water) from a boat by scooping it out."to bail water out of a boat"
5.verbTo remove water from (a boat) by scooping it out."to bail a boat"
6.verbTo set free; to deliver; to release.
7.verbTo exit quickly."With his engine in flames, the pilot had no choice but to bail."
8.verbTo fail to meet a commitment.
9.verbTo secure the head of a cow during milking.
10.verbTo confine.
11.verbTo secure (a cow) by placing its head in a bail for milking.
12.verbTo keep (a traveller) detained in order to rob them; to corner (a wild animal); loosely, to detain, hold up. (Usually with up.)
13.nounThe act by which something is bailed.