bail
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: law
nautical
transport
Etymology: From Middle English baille, from the Old French verb bailler (“to deliver or hand over”) and noun bail (“lease”), from Latin bāiulāre (“carry or bear”), from baiulus (“porter; steward”) (English: bailiff).
Inflected forms:
form: bails
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: bails
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: bailing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: bailed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: bailed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Security, usually a sum of money, exchanged for the release of an arrested person as a guarantee of that person's appearance for trial.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: He was granted bail for £20000.
I ſuppoſe vve ſhall hardly Rehearſe the Comedy this Morning; for the Author vvas Arreſted as he vvas going home from King's Coffee-houſe; and, as I heard, it vvas for upvvards of Four Pound: I ſuppoſe he vvill hardly get Bail.
The Eighth Amendment to the US Constitution forbids excessive bail, and state bail laws are usually designed to prevent discrimination in setting bail.
The purpose of bail is to ensure the return of the accused at subsequent proceedings. If the accused is unable to make bail, he or she is detained in jail.
gloss: Release from imprisonment on payment of such money.
pos: noun
tags: UK
countable
uncountable
gloss: The person providing such payment.
pos: noun
tags: UK
countable
uncountable
gloss: A bucket or scoop used for removing water from a boat etc.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The bail of a canoe […] made of a human skull.
gloss: A person who bails water out of a boat.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Custody; keeping.
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
uncountable
examples: Silly Faunus now within their baile.
gloss: To secure the release of an arrested person by providing bail.
pos: verb
examples: For the first time, the arrests broadened beyond payments to police, with a Ministry of Defence employee and a member of the Armed forces held by police before also being bailed to a date in May.
gloss: To release a person under such guarantee.
pos: verb
gloss: To hand over personal property to be held temporarily by another as a bailment.
pos: verb
examples: to bail cloth to a tailor to be made into a garment; to bail goods to a carrier
gloss: To remove (water) from a boat by scooping it out.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
transitive
examples: to bail water out of a boat
we had hard work to reach our haven, having to bail out the water with my straw hat.
‘Bail out! bail out!’ yelled Job, ‘or we shall founder.’ I seized a large tin bowl with a handle to it, which was fixed under one of the seats, and the three of us bailed away for dear life.
gloss: To remove water from (a boat) by scooping it out.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: to bail a boat
By the help of a small bucket and our hats we bailed her out.
gloss: To set free; to deliver; to release.
pos: verb
examples: Ne none there was to reskue her, ne none to baile.
Related words: bailiff
Derived words: anticipatory bail
bail bandit
bail bond
bail bondsman
bail in
bail-in
bailjumping
bail jumping
bail on
bail-out
bail out on
bail-piece
bailpiece
bailsman
bail up
go bail
Jew bail
jump bail
jump one's bail
leg bail
no-bail
no bail
on bail
out on bail
straw bail
wire bail
bailable
bailee
bailer
bailment
bailor
bail out
bailout
rebail
unbailed
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