Bail (disambiguation)

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The word bail can have these meanings:

• See bail and wikt:bail for security (usually a sum of money), exchanged for the release of an arrested person as a guarantee of that person's appearance for trial by a lawcourt, and related meanings.
• A bail (cricket) is one of the two wooden crosspieces that rest on top of the stumps to form a wicket in cricket.
• The semicircular handle of a bucket, kettle, or pail.
• Bail (jewelry), a ring in Jewellery, used usually for connecting a pendant or amulet to a necklace at the correct angle.
• A bucket or scoop used for removing water from a boat.
  • As a verb: to remove water from a boat by scooping it out.
• A bar - see Dairy#History#Dairy_Processing, or a set of bars, to divide a linear space (one side of a shed or barn) into three-sided enclosures for individual animals (cows, horses and such). The head end of the animal goes toward the wall.
• See Rebreather#Bailout for an emergency second breathing gas supply on a rebreather scuba set.

As a verb:-

• In finance, bail out (finance) is to rescue a person or corporation from bankruptcy, and similar.
• To bail out is to parachute out of an aircraft in an emergency. Sometimes spelt bale out in Britain.
  • And by extension, to escape in a hurry from other situations, for example, "I spotted in time a plot to land me with a huge bill for everybody's drinks, and baled out home from the gathering through the staff exit and watched the rest of an evening's television."
  • (slang): To leave or not attend, as in "I'm going to bail on this afternoon's meeting."
• In extreme sports jargon, to fall.

[edit] See also

• Bale
• Baal