Dictionary Entry
bail
bail is a 4-letter English word with 23 senses as noun, transitive verb, verb t, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A bucket or scoop used in bailing water out of a boat. Face value is 6 in Scrabble and 8 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
4 letters · Scrabble 6 · Words With Friends 8 · 23 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
A bucket or scoop used in bailing water out of a boat.
- 2transitive verb
To lade; to dip and throw; -- usually with out; as, to bail water out of a boat.
- 3transitive verb
To dip or lade water from; -- often with out to express completeness; as, to bail a boat.
- 4verb t
To deliver; to release.
- 5verb t
To set free, or deliver from arrest, or out of custody, on the undertaking of some other person or persons that he or they will be responsible for the appearance, at a certain day and place, of the person bailed.
- 6verb t
To deliver, as goods in trust, for some special object or purpose, upon a contract, expressed or implied, that the trust shall be faithfully executed on the part of the bailee, or person intrusted; as, to bail cloth to a tailor to be made into a garment; to bail goods to a carrier.
- 7noun
Custody; keeping.
- 8noun
The person or persons who procure the release of a prisoner from the custody of the officer, or from imprisonment, by becoming surely for his appearance in court.
- 9noun
The security given for the appearance of a prisoner in order to obtain his release from custody of the officer; as, the man is out on bail; to go bail for any one.
- 10noun
The arched handle of a kettle, pail, or similar vessel, usually movable.
- 11noun
A half hoop for supporting the cover of a carrier's wagon, awning of a boat, etc.
- 12noun
A line of palisades serving as an exterior defense.
- 13noun
The outer wall of a feudal castle. Hence: The space inclosed by it; the outer court.
- 14noun
A certain limit within a forest.
- 15noun
A division for the stalls of an open stable.
- 16noun
The top or cross piece ( or either of the two cross pieces) of the wicket.
- 17noun
the legal system that allows an accused person to be temporarily released from custody (usually on condition that a sum of money guarantees their appearance at trial)
"he is out on bail"
- 18noun
(criminal law) money that must be forfeited by the bondsman if an accused person fails to appear in court for trial
"the judge set bail at $10,000"
"a $10,000 bond was furnished by an alderman"
Synonyms
- 19verb
remove (water) from a vessel with a container
- 20verb
empty (a vessel) by bailing
- 21verb
secure the release of (someone) by providing security
- 22verb
deliver something in trust to somebody for a special purpose and for a limited period
- 23verb
release after a security has been paid
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