Definition of bail

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Bail (n.) A line of palisades serving as an exterior defense.

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Stump :: Stump (n.) One of the three pointed rods stuck in the ground to form a wicket and support the bails.
Replevy :: Replevy (v. t.) To bail.
Baillie :: Baillie (n.) Same as Bailie.
Ballium :: Ballium (n.) See Bailey.
Bail Bond :: Bail bond () Special bail in court to abide the judgment.
Stump :: Stump (n.) To put (a batsman) out of play by knocking off the bail, or knocking down the stumps of the wicket he is defending while he is off his allotted ground; -- sometimes with out..
Bailable :: Bailable (a.) That can be delivered in trust; as, bailable goods..
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..
Surrender :: Surrender (n.) The giving up of a principal into lawful custody by his bail.
Bailey :: Bailey (n.) A prison or court of justice; -- used in certain proper names; as, the Old Bailey in London; the New Bailey in Manchester..
Depositary :: Depositary (n.) One to whom goods are bailed, to be kept for the bailor without a recompense..
Assize :: Assize (n.) An assembly of knights and other substantial men, with a bailiff or justice, in a certain place and at a certain time, for public business..
Bailer :: Bailer (n.) A utensil, as a bucket or cup, used in bailing; a machine for bailing water out of a pit..
Wicket :: Wicket (n.) A small framework at which the ball is bowled. It consists of three rods, or stumps, set vertically in the ground, with one or two short rods, called bails, lying horizontally across the top..
Philistine :: Philistine (n.) A bailiff.
Bailer :: Bailer (n.) See Bailor.
Handle :: Handle (n.) That part of vessels, instruments, etc., which is held in the hand when used or moved, as the haft of a sword, the knob of a door, the bail of a kettle, etc..
Bail :: Bail (n.) The top or cross piece ( or either of the two cross pieces) of the wicket.
Bailment :: Bailment (n.) The action of bailing a person accused.
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..
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