Meaning of Bailey | Babel Free

Definitions

1. An apple cultivar from New York
2. A surname.
   countable
3. The outer wall of a feudal castle.
4. An English surname from Anglo-Norman [in turn originating as an occupation] for a steward or official.
   countable, uncountable
5. The space immediately within the outer wall of a castle or fortress.
6. An English topographic surname from someone who lived by a bailey (the outer wall of a castle).
   countable, uncountable
7. A prison or court of justice.
8. An Irish surname originating as an occupation, an anglicization of Báille (“bailie”).
   countable, uncountable
9. An argument which is controversial and more difficult to defend (in the context of a motte and bailey fallacy).
10. A unisex given name
    countable, uncountable
11. A male given name transferred from the surname.
    countable, uncountable
12. A female given name transferred from the surname.
    US, countable, uncountable
13. A placename
    countable, uncountable
14. A sea area, to the north of Rockall, centred on the former Bill Bailey Bank (now Rockall Basin), located in the Atlantic.
    countable, uncountable
15. A number of places in the United States:
    countable, uncountable
16. An unincorporated community in Park County, Colorado.
    countable, uncountable
17. An unincorporated community in Sherburne County, Minnesota.
    countable, uncountable
18. An unincorporated community in Lauderdale County, Mississippi.
    countable, uncountable
19. An unincorporated community in Jefferson County, Missouri; named for early settler John Martin Bailey.
    countable, uncountable
20. A town in Nash County, North Carolina.
    countable, uncountable
21. A ghost town in Grady County, Oklahoma.
    countable, uncountable
22. A minor city in Fannin County, Texas.
    countable, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“the Old Bailey in London; the New Bailey in Manchester”

“"Birds are dinosaurs" is the bailey; "birds are more similar to dinosaurs than anything else" is the motte.”

““I did not initiate, welcome, encourage, engage in, or learn from much less enjoy, [Adam] Bailey’s tirade. I did not base any part of any of my rulings on it, as Bailey has outlandishly, mistakenly, and defamatorily claimed,” Engoron wrote.”

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