Meaning of bail | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A surname.
2. A hoop, ring or handle (especially of a kettle or bucket).
3. Security, usually a sum of money, exchanged for the release of an arrested person as a guarantee of that person's appearance for trial
4. Release from imprisonment on payment of such money.
   UK, countable, uncountable
5. A stall for a cow (or other animal) (usually tethered with a semi-circular hoop).
6. Release from imprisonment on payment of such money
7. To fail to appear in court and so forfeit one's bail.
8. The person providing such payment.
   UK, countable, uncountable
9. A hinged bar as a restraint for animals, or on a typewriter.
10. The person providing such payment
11. To secure enough money or property to pay the amount of one's bail.
12. A bucket or scoop used for removing water from a boat etc.
    countable, uncountable
13. A frame to restrain a cow during milking or feeding.
    Australia, New-Zealand
14. A bucket or scoop used for removing water from a boat etc
15. A container used for emptying water from a boat.
16. A person who bails water out of a boat.
    countable, uncountable
17. A hoop, ring, or other object used to connect a pendant to a necklace.
18. A person who bails water out of a boat
19. jump bail, to abscond while free on bail.
20. Custody; keeping.
    countable, obsolete, uncountable
21. One of the two wooden crosspieces that rest on top of the stumps to form a wicket.
22. Chiefly Brit. a bar or partition for confining or separating livestock.
23. Normally curved handle suspended between sockets as a drawer pull. This may also be on a kettle or pail.
24. To take a substance, as liquid, from a container by plunging the hand or a utensil into it:dip, lade, ladle, scoop (up).
25. To catapult oneself from a disabled aircraft:eject, jump.
26. a sum of money which is given to a court of law to get an untried prisoner out of prison until the time of his trial, and which acts as security for his return. bail of $500. borgtog كَفالَه гаранция fiança (soudní) kauce die Kaution kaution εγγύησηfianza kautsjon وثیقه takuumaksu caution לְשַׁחרֵר בְּעַרבוּת जमानत, प्रतिभूति jamčevina óvadék uang jaminan trygging cauzione 保釈金 보석금 užstatas galvojums; drošības nauda ikat jamin borgkausjon; løslatelse mot kausjonkaucja ضامن، ضمانت، په ضمانت خلا...
27. one of the cross-pieces laid on the top of the wicket in cricket. balkie, dwarspaaltjie الصليب الصَّليبُ على رأس قَوْس الكريكيت бейл peça de críquete špalík der Querstab overligger δοκάρι που τοποθετείται οριζόντια πάνω από τους στύλους του κρίκετ palito corto põiklatt دو چوبی که به هر یک از تیرهای دروازه وصل است poikkipuu bâtonnet חֶלֶק מִהַשָׁעַר בְּקרִיקֵט जमानत kočić krikettpálcika palang (dalam permainan kriket) þverprik traversa 三柱門の上の横木 손잡이 skersinis palang pancang bail bøylepoprzeczka...
28. Security, usually a sum of money, exchanged for the release of an arrested person as a guarantee of that person's appearance for trial.

Equivalents

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.”

“The bail of a canoe […] made of a human skull.”

“Silly Faunus now within their baile.”

“I reached across beneath the cow to attach a metal bail to each end of the strap so that the bail hung about 5 inches below the cow's belly.[…]While stroking and talking to the cow, I reached under and suspended the machine on the bail beneath the cow, with its four suction cups dangling to one side.”

“1953, British Institute of Management, Centre for Farm Management, Farm Management Association, Farm Managememt, 1960, John Wiley, page 160, More recently, the fixed bail, sometimes called the ‘milking parlour’, with either covered or open yards, has had a certain vogue and some very enthusiastic claims have been made for this method of housing.”

“2011, Edith H. Whetham, Joan Thirsk, The Agrarian History of England and Wales, Volume 8: Volumes 1914-1939, page 191, Ten men thus sufficed for the milking of three hundred cows in five bails, instead of the thirty men who would normally have been employed by conventional methods.”

“But until he had poured enough milk into the vat above the separator, I drove unmilked cows into the bail where he had previously milked and released one. He moved from one bail to the other to milk the next one I had readied. I drove each cow into the empty bail, chained her in, roped the outer hind leg then washed and massaged the udder and teats.”

“As Jason Roy's throw came in from deep mid-wicket, a diving Guptill was short when Buttler removed the bails, sending England and the whole of Lord's into delirious celebrations.”

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