Bail is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for BAIL in dictionary:

VERB:
• to set free by putting up security
• release or secure the release of (a prisoner) on payment of bail
• confront (someone) with the intention of robbing them
• detain (someone) in conversation, especially against their will
• secure (a cow) during milking.
• scoop water out of (a ship or boat)
• scoop (water) out of a ship or boat
• abandon a commitment, obligation, or activity
• To lade; to dip and throw; -- usually with out; as, to bail water out of a boat.
• To dip or lade water from; -- often with out to express completeness; as, to bail a boat.
• To deliver; to release.
• 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.
• 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.
• release after a security has been paid
• deliver something in trust to somebody for a special purpose and for a limited period
• secure the release of (someone) by providing security
• empty (a vessel) by bailing
• remove (water) from a vessel with a container
• pay bail for (a person)
NOUN:
• the temporary release of an accused person awaiting trial, sometimes on condition that a sum of money is lodged to guarantee their appearance in court
• money paid by or for someone in order to secure their release on bail
• either of the two crosspieces bridging the stumps, which the bowler and fielders try to dislodge with the ball to get the batsman out
• a bar on a typewriter or computer printer which holds the paper steady.
• a fastening that secures a crampon to the sole of a boot.
• a bar or pole separating horses in an open stable.
• a movable framework for securing the head of a cow during milking.
• A bucket or scoop used in bailing water out of a boat.
• Custody; keeping.
• 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.
• 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.
• The arched handle of a kettle, pail, or similar vessel, usually movable.
• A half hoop for supporting the cover of a carrier\'s wagon, awning of a boat, etc.
• A line of palisades serving as an exterior defense.
• The outer wall of a feudal castle. Hence: The space inclosed by it; the outer court.
• A certain limit within a forest.
• A division for the stalls of an open stable.
• The top or cross piece ( or either of the two cross pieces) of the wicket.
• (criminal law) money that must be forfeited by the bondsman if an accused person fails to appear in court for trial
• 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)
• money deposited with a court as security for a person's reappearance
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to transfer property temporarily
• money deposited with a court as security for a person\'s reappearance

Words related to BAIL

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How to use BAIL in a sentence

• I fell out and had to roll it over and bail it out two or three times.
• By dint of heavy bail and strong representations they saved him, together with the butcher and baker and candlestick-maker, from the disgrace of prison and the lunatic asylum.
• The doctor then demanded that he should give bail for five hundred dollars that he would have nothing to do with me.
• I was therefore obliged to get bail for my appearance at court, after which I pursued my journey.
• Hogan, than to use it for getting bail for him and leave him lawyerless and at the mercy of his accusers.
• In New York, out of one thousand Tories arrested for failure to take the oath, six hundred were allowed to go on bail, and the rest were merely acquitted or imprisoned.
• Then send for the lawyer of your persecutor, for I can call him nothing else, and offer to pay that much on his demand provided he will accept my father as bail.
• But we two will bail you, Miss, if you will go back with us to Mrs.
• Indeed many private citizens rose wishing to become bail for the accused, but it was resolved to defer decision till another meeting of the assembly.
• The deputy steward or town clerk holds a court of record every three weeks, for the trial of civil actions, and holds to bail for forty shillings and upwards.
• Money was the pressing need, not only for food and rent, but to pay fines and to arrange for the constantly needed bonds to bail out arrested pickets.
• Dionysius not only accepted the bail, but extended the leave to six hours.
• Now cheer up! This setting him free on bail has given me a new angle to work on.
• It would only be a question of a fine, and binding me over to good behaviour on bail.
• The pleas occupied, subsequently, more than a year, during which time the prisoner was admitted to bail.
• They tried to bail it out, but the fishermen knew that nothing they could do would be of any use.
• They could not stop to bail, and the miniature icebergs they passed began to look significantly over the gunwale.
• One hour in three she had to cease paddling in order to bail.
• After due examination he had been kept in bail to wait the action of the grand jury, soon to meet.
• The boat began to fill, and all five of us had to bail as fast as possible for the half-hour the sheet of water was pouring down.
• Sir Philip rose to his feet with an earnest trembling entreaty that bail might be taken for him, and many voices of gentlemen and men of substance made offers of it.
• Trusted to go at large without any bail, and solely on his bare word, that he would be forth coming on a given day, he never violated his promise.
• When he came there, his plea was, that he had not the body in custody, on which he was admitted to bail.

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