bails

• abandons
• absconds
• adjourns
• assurances
• bails out
• bars
• beats it
• bonds
• books
• bows
• broomsticks
• buckets
• buggers off
• bugs off
• bugs out
• canteens
• cauldrons
• clears off
• clears out
• commitments
• compacts
• contracts
• covenants
• crops
• cuts out
• decamps
• departs
• deposits
• deserts
• digs out
• down payments
• earnests
• emigrates
• escapes
• evacuates
• exits
• flagons
• flees
• flies
• forsakes
• gages
• gets
• gets off
• gets out
• goes
• goes off
• goes out
• grips
• guarantees
• guaranties
• hafts
• handgrips
• handlebars
• handles
• handsels
• helves
• hilts
• hits the road
• hods
• holders
• jars
• jugs
• kettles
• lights out
• loops
• mizzles
• moves
• oaths
• pails
• parts
• pawns
• peels off
• pitchers
• pledges
• pots
• pulls out
• pulls stakes
• pulls up stakes
• pushes off
• pushes on
• quits
• receptacles
• recognizances
• removes
• retires
• retreats
• runs along
• runs away
• scarpers
• scats
• scrams
• securities
• sets out
• shafts
• skips
• starts
• steps out
• strikes out
• sureties
• takes a hike
• takes a powder
• takes a walk
• takes off
• tanks
• troths
• tubs
• vacates
• vamooses
• vats
• vessels
• walks out
• warranties
• whipstocks
• withdraws
• words

• abides
• approaches
• arrives
• closes
• comes
• dwells
• hits
• lands
• lodges
• nears
• reaches
• remains
• settles
• shows up
• stays
• tarries
• turns up

• noun
  1. 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. Release from imprisonment on payment of such money.
  3. 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. Custody; keeping.
  7. A hoop, ring or handle (especially of a kettle or bucket).
  8. A stall for a cow (or other animal) (usually tethered with a semi-circular hoop).
  9. A hinged bar as a restraint for animals, or on a typewriter.
  10. A frame to restrain a cow during milking or feeding.
  11. A hoop, ring, or other object used to connect a pendant to a necklace.
  12. One of the two wooden crosspieces that rest on top of the stumps to form a wicket.
  13. (furniture) Normally curved handle suspended between sockets as a drawer pull. This may also be on a kettle or pail.
• verb
  1. To secure the release of an arrested person by providing bail.
  2. To release a person under such guarantee.
  3. To hand over personal property to be held temporarily by another as a bailment.
  4. To remove (water) from a boat by scooping it out.
  5. To remove water from (a boat) by scooping it out.
  6. To set free; to deliver; to release.
  7. To exit quickly.
  8. To fail to meet a commitment.
  9. To secure the head of a cow during milking.
  10. To confine.
  11. To secure (a cow) by placing its head in a bail for milking.
  12. To keep (a traveller) detained in order to rob them; to corner (a wild animal); loosely, to detain, hold up. (Usually with up.).

• Bails of hay dotted the expansive farm fields.
• The defendant's lawyer requested reduced bails for their clients.
• She carefully tied the bails of the boat to the dock to secure it in place.
• The circus performer juggled flaming bails with ease, impressing the audience.
• He grabbed the bails of cotton and loaded them onto the truck for transportation.

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