ALL meanings of bail
bail
B b - uncountable noun bail Bail is a sum of money that an arrested person or someone else puts forward as a guarantee that the arrested person will attend their trial in a law court. If the arrested person does not attend it, the money will be lost. 3
- uncountable noun bail Bail is permission for an arrested person to be released after bail has been paid. 3
- verb bail If someone is bailed, they are released while they are waiting for their trial, after paying an amount of money to the court. 3
- countable noun bail In cricket, the bails are the two small pieces of wood that are laid across the top of the stumps to form the wicket. 3
- verb bail If you bail, you use a container to remove water from a boat or from a place which is flooded. 3
- verb bail Bail out means the same as bail. 3
- noun bail a sum of money by which a person is bound to take responsibility for the appearance in court of another person or himself or herself, forfeited if the person fails to appear 3
- noun bail the person or persons so binding themselves; surety 3
- noun bail the system permitting release of a person from custody where such security has been taken 3
- verb bail to release or obtain the release of (a person) from custody, security having been made 3
- verb bail to remove (water) from (a boat) 3
- noun bail either of two small wooden bars placed across the tops of the stumps to form the wicket 3
- noun bail a partition between stalls in a stable or barn, for horses 3
- noun bail a portable dairy house built on wheels or skids 3
- noun bail a framework in a cowshed used to secure the head of a cow during milking 3
- noun bail the semicircular handle of a kettle, bucket, etc 3
- noun bail a semicircular support for a canopy 3
- noun bail a movable bar on a typewriter that holds the paper against the platen 3
- noun bail money, a bond, etc. deposited with the court to obtain the temporary release of an arrested person on the assurance that the person will obey the court's orders, as by appearing for trial 3
- noun bail the release thus brought about 3
- noun bail the person or persons giving bail 3
- verb transitive bail to deliver (goods) in trust for a special purpose 3
- verb transitive bail to set (an arrested person) free on bail or have (an arrested person) set free by giving bail 3
- verb transitive bail to help out of financial or other difficulty 3
- noun bail a bucket or scoop for dipping up water and removing it from a boat 3
- intransitive verb bail to remove water from (a boat) as with a bail 3
- intransitive verb bail to dip out (water, etc.) as with a bail 3
- noun bail a hoop-shaped support for holding up the cloth of a canopy, etc. 3
- noun bail a hoop-shaped handle for a bucket, kettle, etc. 3
- noun bail a bar on a typewriter to hold the paper against the platen 3
- noun bail a bar or pole to keep animals separate in a barn 3
- noun bail either of two sticks laid across the three stumps to form a wicket 3
- transitive verb bail remove: water from boat 1
- noun bail system of releasing sb from jail 1
- noun bail top of wicket 1
- noun bail stable or barn partition 1
- noun bail milking device 1
- intransitive verb bail leave 1
- noun bail The temporary release of an accused person awaiting trial, sometimes on condition that a sum of money be lodged to guarantee their appearance in court. 1
- noun bail Cricket. either of the two small bars or sticks laid across the tops of the stumps which form the wicket. 1
- noun bail British, Australian. a bar, framework, partition, or the like, for confining or separating cows, horses, etc., in a stable. 1
- noun bail bails, Obsolete. the wall of an outer court of a feudal castle. 1
- verb with object bail to dip (water) out of a boat, as with a bucket. 1
- verb with object bail to clear of water by dipping (usually followed by out): to bail out a boat. 1
- idioms bail bail up!, Australian. (the cry of challenge of a pioneer or person living in the bush.) 1
- verb without object bail to bail water. 1
- noun bail payment for sb's release from jail 1
- transitive verb bail pay to be released from jail 1
- verb bail (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.). 0
- noun bail Security, usually a sum of money, exchanged for the release of an arrested person as a guarantee of that person's appearance for trial. 0