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Bailer :: Bailer (n.) See Bailor.

Bail :: Bail (n.) A bucket or scoop used in bailing water out of a boat.

Greeve :: Greeve (n.) A manager of a farm, or overseer of any work; a reeve; a manorial bailiff..

Philistine :: Philistine (n.) A bailiff.

Water Bailiff :: Water bailiff () An officer of the customs, whose duty it is to search vessels..

Bail :: Bail (n.) The top or cross piece ( or either of the two cross pieces) of the wicket.

Bailie :: Bailie (n.) An officer in Scotland, whose office formerly corresponded to that of sheriff, but now corresponds to that of an English alderman..

Bumbailiff :: Bumbailiff (n.) See Bound bailiff, under Bound, a..

Burghmaster :: Burghmaster (n.) An officer who directs and lays out the meres or boundaries for the workmen; -- called also bailiff, and barmaster..

Approver :: Approver (v. t.) A bailiff or steward; an agent.

Bail :: Bail (n.) The outer wall of a feudal castle. Hence: The space inclosed by it; the outer court.

Bail :: Bail (v./t.) 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..

Bailment :: Bailment (n.) A delivery of goods or money by one person to another in trust, for some special purpose, upon a contract, expressed or implied, that the trust shall be faithfully executed..

Surrender :: Surrender (v. t.) To yield; to render or deliver up; to give up; as, a principal surrendered by his bail, a fugitive from justice by a foreign state, or a particular estate by the tenant thereof to him in remainder or reversion..

Boroughmaster :: Boroughmaster (n.) The mayor, governor, or bailiff of a borough..

Bailer :: Bailer (n.) A utensil, as a bucket or cup, used in bailing; a machine for bailing water out of a pit..

Hire :: Hire (n.) A bailment by which the use of a thing, or the services and labor of a person, are contracted for at a certain price or reward..

Bail :: Bail (n.) The arched handle of a kettle, pail, or similar vessel, usually movable..

Pledge :: Pledge (n.) The transfer of possession of personal property from a debtor to a creditor as security for a debt or engagement; also, the contract created between the debtor and creditor by a thing being so delivered or deposited, forming a species of bailment; also, that which is so delivered or deposited; something put in pawn..

Catchpoll :: Catchpoll (n.) A bailiff's assistant.

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