different between bailer vs vailer

English

Etymology

bail +? -er

Noun

bailer (plural bailers)

1. One who bails or lades.
2. A utensil, as a bucket or cup, used in bailing; a machine for bailing water out of a pit.
   • 1938, Xavier Herbert, Capricornia, New York: D. Appleton-Century, 1943, Chapter IV, p. 50, [1]

     […] he had them help him fashion a mast from the sweep and attach wire stays to it and tear the jib to the shape he desired and make a bailer from canvas and wire and bent wood.
3. (law) Alternative form of bailor
4. (cricket, dated) A delivery that heads towards the bails after pitching.
5. (cricket, dated) A delivery in which the ball hits one or both bails but does not dislodge them.

Translations

Anagrams

• Barile, Bel Air, Belair, Blaire, Labrie, irable, librae, rebail

English

Etymology

vail +? -er

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ve?l?(?)/
• Homophone: veiler

Noun

vailer (plural vailers)

1. (obsolete) one who vails
   • 1614, Thomas Overbury, Characters

     if he finds not good ?tore of vailers , vailers, hee comes home ?tiffe and ?eer

References

vailer in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Anagrams

• Averil, Elvira, Levari

Norman

Etymology

vaile (“sail”) +? -er

Verb

vailer

1. (Jersey, nautical) to sail