To secure the release of an arrested person by providing bail.
To release a person under such guarantee.
To hand over personal property to be held temporarily by another as a bailment.
to bail cloth to a tailor to be made into a garment; to bail goods to a carrier
To remove (water) from a boat by scooping it out.
to bail water out of a boat
To remove water from (a boat) by scooping it out.
to bail a boat
To set free; to deliver; to release.
To exit quickly.
With his engine in flames, the pilot had no choice but to bail.
To fail to meet a commitment.
To secure the head of a cow during milking.
To confine.
To secure (a cow) by placing its head in a bail for milking.
To keep (a traveller) detained in order to rob them; to corner (a wild animal); loosely, to detain, hold up. (Usually with up.)
The act by which something is bailed.