noun

• (countable, uncountable) Security, usually a sum of money, exchanged for the release of an arrested person as a guarantee of that person's appearance for trial.
  "He was granted bail for £20000."
• (law, UK) Release from imprisonment on payment of such money.
• (law, UK) The person providing such payment.
• (obsolete) Custody; keeping.
  "Silly Faunus now within their baile."

verb

• (law) To release a person under such guarantee.
• (law) To hand over personal property to be held temporarily by another as a bailment.
  "to bail cloth to a tailor to be made into a garment; to bail goods to a carrier"
• (nautical, transitive, intransitive) To remove (water) from a boat by scooping it out.
  "to bail water out of a boat"
• (nautical, transitive) To remove water from (a boat) by scooping it out.
  "to bail a boat"

verb

• (intransitive, slang) To leave or exit abruptly.
  "With his engine in flames, the pilot had no choice but to bail."
• (intransitive, informal) To fail to meet a commitment (to a person). [with on ‘someone’]
  ""No one bails on Bennie Milagros. No one, comprende? I'm gonna hold you to that midnight run — ""

noun

• (chiefly Australia and New Zealand) A frame to restrain a cow during milking or feeding.
  "But until he had poured enough milk into the vat above the separator, I drove unmilked cows into the bail where he had previously milked and released one. He moved from one bail to the other to milk the next one I had readied. I drove each cow into the empty bail, chained her in, roped the outer hind leg then washed and massaged the udder and teats."
• (cricket) One of the two wooden crosspieces that rest on top of the stumps to form a wicket.
  "As Jason Roy's throw came in from deep mid-wicket, a diving Guptill was short when Buttler removed the bails, sending England and the whole of Lord's into delirious celebrations."
• (furniture) Normally curved handle suspended between sockets as a drawer pull. This may also be on a kettle or pail.