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Bail   /beɪl/   Listen
noun
Bail  n.  A bucket or scoop used in bailing water out of a boat. (Obs.) "The bail of a canoe... made of a human skull."


Bail  n.  
1.
Custody; keeping. (Obs.) "Silly Faunus now within their bail."
2.
(Law)
(a)
The person or persons who procure the release of a prisoner from the custody of the officer, or from imprisonment, by becoming surety for his appearance in court. "The bail must be real, substantial bondsmen." "A. and B. were bail to the arrest in a suit at law."
(b)
The security given for the appearance of a prisoner in order to obtain his release from custody of the officer; as, the man is out on bail; to go bail for any one. "Excessive bail ought not to be required."


Bail  n.  
1.
The arched handle of a kettle, pail, or similar vessel, usually movable.
2.
A half hoop for supporting the cover of a carrier's wagon, awning of a boat, etc.


Bail  n.  
1.
(Usually pl.) A line of palisades serving as an exterior defense. (Written also bayle) (Obs.)
2.
The outer wall of a feudal castle. Hence: The space inclosed by it; the outer court.
3.
A certain limit within a forest. (Eng.)
4.
A division for the stalls of an open stable.
5.
(Cricket) The top or cross piece (or either of the two cross pieces) of the wicket.


verb
Bail  v. t.  (past & past part. bailed; pres. part. bailing)  
1.
To lade; to dip and throw; usually with out; as, to bail water out of a boat. "Buckets... to bail out the water."
2.
To dip or lade water from; often with out to express completeness; as, to bail a boat. "By the help of a small bucket and our hats we bailed her out."


Bail  v. t.  
1.
To deliver; to release. (Obs.) "Ne none there was to rescue her, ne none to bail."
2.
(Law)
(a)
To set free, or deliver from arrest, or out of custody, on the undertaking of some other person or persons that he or they will be responsible for the appearance, at a certain day and place, of the person bailed. Note: The word is applied to the magistrate or the surety. The magistrate bails (but admits to bail is commoner) a man when he liberates him from arrest or imprisonment upon bond given with sureties. The surety bails a person when he procures his release from arrest by giving bond for his appearance.
(b)
To deliver, as goods in trust, for some special object or purpose, upon a contract, expressed or implied, that the trust shall be faithfully executed on the part of the bailee, or person intrusted; as, to bail cloth to a tailor to be made into a garment; to bail goods to a carrier.





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"Bail" Quotes from Famous Books



... been engaged in a struggle with the System so long that he knew just how to get action, the magistrates he could depend on, the various pitfalls that surrounded the snaring of one high in gangland, the judges who would fix bail that ...
— The Ear in the Wall • Arthur B. Reeve
... that he was one of Chief Burke's minions, and Gillis was presently indicted on a charge of assault with intent to kill. He knew some of the officials in a friendly way, and was advised to give a straw bond and go into temporary retirement. Clemens, of course, went his bail, and Steve set out for Virginia City, until the ...
— Mark Twain, A Biography, 1835-1910, Complete - The Personal And Literary Life Of Samuel Langhorne Clemens • Albert Bigelow Paine
... of the eighteenth century the game was in a very rudimentary condition, very different from the scientific pastime it has since become. There were only two wickets, a foot high and two feet apart, with one long bail at the top. Between the wickets there was a hole large enough to contain the ball, and when the batsman made a run, he had to place the end of his bat in this hole before the wicket-keeper could place the ball there, otherwise he would ...
— Old English Sports • Peter Hampson Ditchfield
... fancies it fired! What golden wishes and hopes inspired! To give but a mere abridgment— What a leg to leg-bail Embarrassment's serf! What a leg for a Leg to take on the turf! What a leg for a ...
— The Poetical Works of Thomas Hood • Thomas Hood
... four, came to the place appointed for his trial. Four or five days were employed in the examination of witnesses, and never was a clearer case of murder proved than on that occasion. Notwithstanding, the court (Justice Brown dissenting) admitted Wilson to bail, and positively refused that the prosecuting attorney for the State should introduce the law, to show that it was not a bailable case, or even to hear an argument from him, and the counsel associated with him to prosecute ...
— Diary in America, Series Two • Frederick Marryat (AKA Captain Marryat)


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