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bail
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /be??l/, [?be??(?)?], [be???]
- Rhymes: -e?l
- Homophone: bale
Etymology 1
Borrowed from the Old French verb bailler (“to deliver or hand over”) and noun bail (“lease”), from Latin b?iul?re, present active infinitive of b?iul? (“carry or bear”), from baiulus (“porter; steward”) (English: bailiff).
Noun
bail (plural bails)
- Security, usually a sum of money, exchanged for the release of an arrested person as a guarantee of that person's appearance for trial.
- (law, Britain) Release from imprisonment on payment of such money.
- (law, Britain) The person providing such payment.
- A bucket or scoop used for removing water from a boat etc.
- 1770, James Cook, Voyages Round the World
- The bail of a canoe […] made of a human skull.
- 1770, James Cook, Voyages Round the World
- A person who bails water out of a boat.
- (obsolete) Custody; keeping.
Derived terms
- jump bail
- out on bail
Related terms
- bailiff
Translations
Verb
bail (third-person singular simple present bails, present participle bailing, simple past and past participle bailed)
- To secure the release of an arrested person by providing bail.
- (law) To release a person under such guarantee.
- (law) To 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
- (nautical, transitive, intransitive) To remove (water) from a boat by scooping it out.
- to bail water out of a boat
- November 4, 1857, Henry William Harper, letter to St. John
- we had hard work to reach our haven, having to bail out the water with my straw hat.
- (nautical, transitive) To remove water from (a boat) by scooping it out.
- to bail a boat
- 1840, Richard Henry Dana Jr., s:Two Years Before the Mast Chapter XVIII
- By the help of a small bucket and our hats we bailed her out.
- To set free; to deliver; to release.
Derived terms
- bailment
- bailor
- bailee
- bail out
Related terms
- bailiff
Translations
Etymology 2
From a shortening of bail out, which from above.
Verb
bail (third-person singular simple present bails, present participle bailing, simple past and past participle bailed)
- (slang) To exit quickly.
- 2010 September, Jeannette Cooperman, "Bringing It Home", St. Louis magazine, ISSN 1090-5723, volume 16, issue 9, page 62:
- The Teacher Home Visit Program takes a huge commitment—time, energy, patience, diplomacy. Quite a few schools […] have tried it and bailed.
- 2010 September, Jeannette Cooperman, "Bringing It Home", St. Louis magazine, ISSN 1090-5723, volume 16, issue 9, page 62:
- (informal, intransitive, followed by "on") To fail to meet a commitment (to a person).
Etymology 3
From Middle English beyl, from Middle English beygla (“a bend, ring or hoop”).
Noun
bail (plural bails)
- A hoop, ring or handle (especially of a kettle or bucket).
- 2010, John M. Findley, Just Lucky, page 78,
- 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.
- 2010, John M. Findley, Just Lucky, page 78,
- 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 Managememt, 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.
- 1953, British Institute of Management, Centre for Farm Management, Farm Management Association, Farm Managememt, 1960, John Wiley, page 160,
- A hinged bar as a restraint for animals, or on a typewriter.
- (chiefly Australia and New Zealand) A frame to restrain a cow during milking or feeding.
- 2011, Bob Ellis, Hush Now, Don't Cry, page 153,
- 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.
- 2011, Bob Ellis, Hush Now, Don't Cry, page 153,
- A hoop, ring, or other object used to connect a pendant to a necklace.
- (cricket) One of the two wooden crosspieces that rest on top of the stumps to form a wicket.
- (furniture) Normally curved handle suspended between sockets as a drawer pull. This may also be on a kettle or pail.
Translations
Verb
bail (third-person singular simple present bails, present participle bailing, simple past and past participle bailed)
- To secure the head of a cow during milking.
Etymology 4
From French baillier.
Verb
bail (third-person singular simple present bails, present participle bailing, simple past and past participle bailed)
- (rare) To confine.
- (Australia, New Zealand) To secure (a cow) by placing its head in a bail for milking.
- (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 up.)
- 2006, Clive James, North Face of Soho, Picador 2007, p. 128:
- The transition over the rooftop would have been quicker if Sellers had not been bailed up by a particularly hostile spiritual presence speaking Swedish.
- 2006, Clive James, North Face of Soho, Picador 2007, p. 128:
Anagrams
- Albi, Bali, Liab.
Bouyei
Etymology
From Proto-Tai *paj? (“to go”). Cognate with Thai ?? (bpai), Northern Thai ?? (pai), Khün ?? (pai), Lao ?? (pai), Lü ?? (?ay) and ?? (pay), Tai Dam ??, Shan ?? (p?y), Aiton ??, Zhuang bae.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /p?i??/
Verb
bail
- to go
- to walk
- to go away; to leave
- to spend; to use up
Preposition
bail
- to; toward
Cimbrian
Etymology
See baille (“while”)
Conjunction
bail
- (Sette Comuni) while
Related terms
- baille
References
- “bail” in Martalar, Umberto Martello; Bellotto, Alfonso (1974) Dizionario della lingua Cimbra dei Sette Communi vicentini, 1st edition, Roana, Italy: Instituto di Cultura Cimbra A. Dal Pozzo
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /baj/
- Homophones: baille, baillent, bailles, bye
Etymology 1
From bailler.
Noun
bail m (plural baux)
- lease (contract)
- (colloquial) yonks, ages
Etymology 2
From Haitian Creole bagay, from French bagage.
Noun
bail m (plural bails)
- (slang) thing, stuff, affair
Further reading
- “bail” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Irish
Alternative forms
- abail
Etymology
From Old Irish bal (“state (of affairs), condition, situation; prosperity, good luck, good effect”); see buil (“effect, result, condition, completion”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /b?al?/
Noun
bail f (genitive singular baile)
- prosperity
- Synonym: rath
- Proverb:
- proper condition, order
- state
- treatment
- validity
Declension
Derived terms
Mutation
Further reading
- "bail" in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
- Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “bal”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- Entries containing “bail” in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm, 1959, by Tomás de Bhaldraithe.
- Entries containing “bail” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.
Latvian
Etymology
Originally a reduced form of *bailu, an u-stem parallel form to the archaic singular form baile of bailes “fear” (cf. Lithuanian bailùs “afraid”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [bâjl]
Adverb
bail (+ dat. + (no +) gen.)
- afraid, scared (in the mental state typical of fear)
References
Palauan
Etymology
From Pre-Palauan *bayul, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *balun, form Proto-Austronesian *baluN.
Noun
bail
- cloth
Scottish Gaelic
Etymology 1
From the root of buil (“consequence, completion, result”)
Noun
bail f
- thrift, frugality
Derived terms
- baileach
- mì-bhail
Etymology 2
From Latin ballista
Noun
bail f
- sling, ballista
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bailable
English
Etymology
bail +? -able
Adjective
bailable (not comparable)
- (of a person) Eligible for bail.
- (of an offence) For which bail is permitted.
Spanish
Adjective
bailable (plural bailables)
- danceable
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