Bailname

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  A surname.

bailnoun詞源 1/beɪl/

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  Security, usually a sum of money, exchanged for the release of an arrested person as a guarantee of that person's appearance for trial.

  • He was granted bail for £20000.
  • I ſuppoſe vve ſhall hardly Rehearſe the Comedy this Morning; for the Author vvas Arreſted as he vvas going home from King's Coffee-houſe; and, as I heard, it vvas for upvvards of Four Pound: I ſuppoſe he vvill hardly get Bail.
• 2

  lawRelease from imprisonment on payment of such money.

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  lawThe person providing such payment.

• 4

  A bucket or scoop used for removing water from a boat etc.

  • The bail of a canoe […] made of a human skull.
• 5

  A person who bails water out of a boat.

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  obsoleteCustody; keeping.

  • Silly Faunus now within their baile.

bailverb詞源 1/beɪl/

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  To secure the release of an arrested person by providing bail.

  • For the first time, the arrests broadened beyond payments to police, with a Ministry of Defence employee and a member of the Armed forces held by police before also being bailed to a date in May.
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  lawTo release a person under such guarantee.

• 3

  lawTo 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

  nauticaltransportTo remove (water) from a boat by scooping it out.

  • to bail water out of a boat
  • we had hard work to reach our haven, having to bail out the water with my straw hat.
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  nauticaltransportTo remove water from (a boat) by scooping it out.

  • to bail a boat
  • By the help of a small bucket and our hats we bailed her out.
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  To set free; to deliver; to release.

  • Ne none there was to reskue her, ne none to baile.

bailverb詞源 2/beɪl/

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  slangTo leave or exit abruptly.

  • With his engine in flames, the pilot had no choice but to bail.
  • The Teacher Home Visit Program takes a huge commitment—time, energy, patience, diplomacy. Quite a few schools […] have tried it and bailed.
• 2

  informalTo fail to meet a commitment (to a person).

  • "No one bails on Bennie Milagros. No one, comprende? I'm gonna hold you to that midnight run — "
  • And I ain't got no help. Goddamn Fitch bails on me, scrambles over to Finance.

bailnoun詞源 3/beɪl/

• 1

  A hoop, ring or handle (especially of a kettle or bucket).

  • I reached across beneath the cow to attach a metal bail to each end of the strap so that the bail hung about 5 inches below the cow's belly.[…]While stroking and talking to the cow, I reached under and suspended the machine on the bail beneath the cow, with its four suction cups dangling to one side.
• 2

  A stall for a cow (or other animal) (usually tethered with a semi-circular hoop).

  • 1953, British Institute of Management, Centre for Farm Management, Farm Management Association, Farm Management, 1960, John Wiley, page 160, More recently, the fixed bail, sometimes called the ‘milking parlour’, with either covered or open yards, has had a certain vogue and some very enthusiastic claims have been made for this method of housing.
  • 2011, Edith H. Whetham, Joan Thirsk, The Agrarian History of England and Wales, Volume 8: Volumes 1914-1939, page 191, Ten men thus sufficed for the milking of three hundred cows in five bails, instead of the thirty men who would normally have been employed by conventional methods.
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  A hinged bar as a restraint for animals, or on a typewriter.

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  A frame to restrain a cow during milking or feeding.

  • She had the next bail to me, and told me off in between bucketfuls of milk.
  • But until he had poured enough milk into the vat above the separator, I drove unmilked cows into the bail where he had previously milked and released one. He moved from one bail to the other to milk the next one I had readied. I drove each cow into the empty bail, chained her in, roped the outer hind leg then washed and massaged the udder and teats.
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  A hoop, ring, or other object used to connect a pendant to a necklace.

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  ball-gamescricketgamesOne of the two wooden crosspieces that rest on top of the stumps to form a wicket.

  • As Jason Roy's throw came in from deep mid-wicket, a diving Guptill was short when Buttler removed the bails, sending England and the whole of Lord's into delirious celebrations.
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  furniturelifestyleNormally curved handle suspended between sockets as a drawer pull. This may also be on a kettle or pail.

bailverb詞源 3/beɪl/

• 1

  To secure the head of a cow during milking.

bailverb詞源 4/beɪl/

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  rareTo confine.

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  To secure (a cow) by placing its head in a bail for milking.

• 3

  To keep (a traveller) detained in order to rob them; to corner (a wild animal); loosely, to detain, hold up.

  • The transition over the rooftop would have been quicker if Sellers had not been bailed up by a particularly hostile spiritual presence speaking Swedish.
  • While celebrating our “graduation”, a handsome Scot bailed me up outside a pub and insisted I help him solve the cryptic crossword.