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1.nounSecurity, usually a sum of money, exchanged for the release of an arrested person as a guarantee of that person's appearance for trial.
2.nounRelease from imprisonment on payment of such money.
3.nounThe person providing such payment.
4.nounA bucket or scoop used for removing water from a boat etc.
5.nounA person who bails water out of a boat.
6.nounCustody; keeping.
7.verbTo secure the release of an arrested person by providing bail.
8.verbTo release a person under such guarantee.
9.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"
10.verbTo remove (water) from a boat by scooping it out."to bail water out of a boat"
11.verbTo remove water from (a boat) by scooping it out."to bail a boat"
12.verbTo set free; to deliver; to release.
13.verbTo exit quickly."With his engine in flames, the pilot had no choice but to bail."
14.verbTo fail to meet a commitment.
15.nounA hoop, ring or handle (especially of a kettle or bucket).
16.nounA stall for a cow (or other animal) (usually tethered with a semi-circular hoop).
17.nounA hinged bar as a restraint for animals, or on a typewriter.
18.nounA frame to restrain a cow during milking or feeding.
19.nounA hoop, ring, or other object used to connect a pendant to a necklace.
20.nounOne of the two wooden crosspieces that rest on top of the stumps to form a wicket.
21.noun(furniture) Normally curved handle suspended between sockets as a drawer pull. This may also be on a kettle or pail.
22.verbTo secure the head of a cow during milking.
23.verbTo confine.
24.verbTo secure (a cow) by placing its head in a bail for milking.
25.verbTo keep (a traveller) detained in order to rob them; to corner (a wild animal); loosely, to detain, hold up. (Usually with up.)