bail up (English, verb)
expansion: bail up (third-person singular simple present bails up, present participle bailing up, simple past and past participle bailed up)
Senses:
glosses: To delay (someone) by talking to them.
tags: transitive
glosses: For rocks, clay, etc. to build up around a drill.
tags: intransitive
glosses: To rob (someone).
tags: Australia
transitive
glosses: To corner (someone); to hold (someone) under threat of violence; for dogs to hold people or animals at bay.
tags: Australia
transitive
glosses: To apply a bail to a cow (a frame to restrain a cow during milking or feeding); to enter a bail.
tags: Australia
transitive
glosses: Misspelling of bale up.
tags: alt-of
misspelling
Forms:
form: bails up
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: bailing up
tags: participle
present
form: bailed up
tags: participle
past
form: bailed up
tags: past