Find your perfect word!

Definition bail

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)

1. Security, usually a sum of money, exchanged for the release of an arrested person as a guarantee of that person's appearance for trial.
2. (law, Britain) Release from imprisonment on payment of such money.
3. (law, Britain) The person providing such payment.
4. A bucket or scoop used for removing water from a boat etc.
5. A person who bails water out of a boat.
6. (obsolete) Custody; keeping.

Verb

bail (third-person singular simple present bails, present participle bailing, simple past and past participle bailed)

1. To secure the release of an arrested person by providing bail.
2. (law) To release a person under such guarantee.
3. (law) To hand over personal property to be held temporarily by another as a bailment.
4. (nautical, transitive) To remove (water) from a boat by scooping it out.
5. (nautical, transitive) To remove water from (a boat) by scooping it out.
6. To set free; to deliver; to release.

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)

1. (slang) To exit quickly.
2. (informal) To fail to meet a commitment.

Etymology 3

From Middle English beyl, from Old Norse beygla (�a bend, ring or hoop�).

Noun

bail (plural bails)

1. A hoop, ring or handle (especially of a kettle or bucket).
2. A stall for a cow (or other animal) (usually tethered with a semi-circular hoop).
3. A hinged bar as a restraint for animals, or on a typewriter.
4. (chiefly Australia and New Zealand) A frame to restrain a cow during milking or feeding.
5. A hoop, ring, or other object used to connect a pendant to a necklace.
6. (cricket) One of the two wooden crosspieces that rest on top of the stumps to form a wicket.
7. (furniture) Normally curved handle suspended between sockets as a drawer pull. This may also be on a kettle or pail.

Verb

bail (third-person singular simple present bails, present participle bailing, simple past and past participle bailed)

1. 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)

1. (rare) To confine.
2. (Australia, New Zealand) To secure (a cow) by placing its head in a bail for milking.
3. (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.)

Results 267 Words with the letters BAIL

You can also try words with the phrase BAIL, words starting with the letters BAIL, or words ending in the letters BAIL.

Favorites Searches

Words… ending with q, starting with q, starting with qa, starting with qo, with two letters, starting with x, starting with j, ending with j,

Some random searches: Words with the letters SY, Words with the letters URRN, Words with the letters LECT, Words with the letters PVRHA,