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4-letter words (1 found)

BAIL,

3-letter words (5 found)

AIL,ALB,BAL,LAB,LIB,

2-letter words (7 found)

AB,AI,AL,BA,BI,LA,LI,

You can make 13 words from bail according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 4 letters words made out of bail

bail abil bial ibal aibl iabl bali abli blai lbai albi labi bila ibla blia lbia ilba liba ailb ialb alib laib ilab liab

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Definitions and meaning of bail

bail

Pronunciation

  • enPR: bāl, IPA(key): /beɪl/, [ˈbeɪ̯(ə)ɫ], [beə̯ɫ]
  • Rhymes: -eɪl
  • Homophone: bale

Etymology 1

From Middle English baille, from the Old French verb bailler (“to deliver or hand over”) and noun bail (“lease”), from Latin bāiulāre, present active infinitive of bāiulō (“carry or bear”), from baiulus (“porter; steward”) (English: bailiff).

Noun

bail (countable and uncountable, plural bails)

  1. (uncountable) Security, usually a sum of money, exchanged for the release of an arrested person as a guarantee of that person's appearance for trial.
  2. (law, UK) Release from imprisonment on payment of such money.
  3. (law, UK) The person providing such payment.
  4. A bucket or scoop used for removing water from a boat etc.
  5. A person who bails water out of a boat.
  6. (obsolete) Custody; keeping.
Derived terms
Related terms
  • bailiff
Translations

Verb

bail (third-person singular simple present bails, present participle bailing, simple past and past participle bailed)

  1. To secure the release of an arrested person by providing bail.
  2. (law) To release a person under such guarantee.
  3. (law) To hand over personal property to be held temporarily by another as a bailment.
  4. (nautical, transitive, intransitive) To remove (water) from a boat by scooping it out.
    • November 4, 1857, Henry William Harper, letter to St. John
      we had hard work to reach our haven, having to bail out the water with my straw hat.
  5. (nautical, transitive) To remove water from (a boat) by scooping it out.
  6. To set free; to deliver; to release.
Derived terms
  • bailment
  • bailor
  • bailee
  • bail out, bailout
Related terms
  • bailiff
Translations

Etymology 2

From a shortening of bail out, which from above.

Verb

bail (third-person singular simple present bails, present participle bailing, simple past and past participle bailed)

  1. (slang) To exit quickly.
    • 2010 September, Jeannette Cooperman, "Bringing It Home", St. Louis magazine, ISSN 1090-5723, volume 16, issue 9, page 62:
      The Teacher Home Visit Program takes a huge commitment—time, energy, patience, diplomacy. Quite a few schools […] have tried it and bailed.
  2. (informal, transitive with on) To fail to meet a commitment (to a person).

Etymology 3

From Middle English beyle, from Old English bīeġels, from bīeġan +‎ -els.

Noun

bail (plural bails)

  1. A hoop, ring or handle (especially of a kettle or bucket).
  2. A stall for a cow (or other animal) (usually tethered with a semi-circular hoop).
    • 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.
  3. A hinged bar as a restraint for animals, or on a typewriter.
  4. (chiefly Australia and New Zealand) A frame to restrain a cow during milking or feeding.
  5. A hoop, ring, or other object used to connect a pendant to a necklace.
  6. (cricket) One of the two wooden crosspieces that rest on top of the stumps to form a wicket.
  7. (furniture) Normally curved handle suspended between sockets as a drawer pull. This may also be on a kettle or pail.
Translations

Verb

bail (third-person singular simple present bails, present participle bailing, simple past and past participle bailed)

  1. To secure the head of a cow during milking.

Etymology 4

From French baillier.

Verb

bail (third-person singular simple present bails, present participle bailing, simple past and past participle bailed)

  1. (rare) To confine.
  2. (Australia, New Zealand) To secure (a cow) by placing its head in a bail for milking.
  3. (Australia, New Zealand, usually with up) To keep (a traveller) detained in order to rob them; to corner (a wild animal); loosely, to detain, hold up.
Translations

Anagrams

  • Albi, Bali, Liab.

Bouyei

Etymology

From Proto-Tai *pajᴬ (“to go”). Cognate with Thai ไป (bpai), Northern Thai ᨻᩱ (pai), Khün ᨻᩱ (pai), Lao ໄປ (pai), Lü ᦺᦔ (ṗay) and ᦺᦗ (pay), Tai Dam ꪼꪜ, Shan ပႆ (pǎi), Aiton ပႝ (pay), Zhuang bae.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /pɐi˨˦/

Verb

bail

  1. to go
  2. to walk
  3. to go away; to leave
  4. to spend; to use up

Preposition

bail

  1. to; toward

Cimbrian

Etymology

See baille (“while”)

Conjunction

bail

  1. (Sette Comuni) while

Related terms

  • baille
  • darbàil

References

  • “bail” in Martalar, Umberto Martello, Bellotto, Alfonso (1974) Dizionario della lingua Cimbra dei Sette Communi vicentini, 1st edition, Roana, Italy: Instituto di Cultura Cimbra A. Dal Pozzo

French

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /baj/
  • Homophones: baille, baillent, bailles, bye

Etymology 1

From bailler.

Noun

bail m (plural baux)

  1. lease (contract)
  2. (colloquial) yonks, ages
Derived terms
  • contrat de bail

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Haitian Creole bagay, from French bagage.

Noun

bail m (plural bails)

  1. (slang) thing, stuff, affair

Further reading

  • “bail”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Irish

Alternative forms

  • abail

Etymology

From Old Irish bal (“state (of affairs), condition, situation; prosperity, good luck, good effect”); see buil (“effect, result, condition, completion”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /bˠalʲ/

Noun

bail f (genitive singular baile)

  1. prosperity
    Synonym: rath
  2. proper condition, order
  3. state
  4. treatment
  5. validity

Declension

Derived terms

  • bailchríoch (“finishing touch”)
  • gan bhail (“invalid, void”)
  • bailigh

Mutation

Further reading

  • Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “bail”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
  • G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “bal”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  • Entries containing “bail” in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm, 1959, by Tomás de Bhaldraithe.
  • Finck, F. N. (1899) Die araner mundart (in German), volume II, Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 58
  • Entries containing “bail” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.

Latvian

Etymology

Originally a reduced form of *bailu, an u-stem parallel form to the archaic singular form baile of bailes “fear” (cf. Lithuanian bailùs “afraid”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [bâjl]

Adverb

bail (+ dat. + (no +) gen.)

  1. afraid, scared (in the mental state typical of fear)
    viņam ir bail no suņiem ― he is afraid of dogs
    zēnam kļūst bail ― the boy becomes afraid
    bail, ka nesaaukstējas ― he is afraid of catching a cold
    bail no aukstuma, no ūdens ― afraid of heights, of water
    bail svešu ļaužu ― afraid of strangers
    bail skatīties lejup ― afraid of looking down
    bērnam bail runāt ar svešiem ― the child is afraid of talking to strangers
    man tā vēja bail: tas nolauza manu egli ― I am afraid of that wind: it broke my spruce tree
    man metas bail, ka tiešām Hibšs nekļūst traks ― I suddenly became afraid that Hibšs of all people might go crazy

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Palauan

Etymology

From Pre-Palauan *bayul, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *balun, form Proto-Austronesian *baluN.

Noun

bail

  1. cloth

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology 1

From the root of buil (“consequence, completion, result”)

Noun

bail f

  1. thrift, frugality
Derived terms
  • baileach
  • mì-bhail

Etymology 2

From Latin ballista.

Noun

bail f

  1. sling, ballista

References


Source: wiktionary.org