(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.

(law, UK) Release from imprisonment on payment of such money.

(law, UK) The person providing such payment.

A bucket or scoop used for removing water from a boat etc.

A person who bails water out of a boat.

A hoop, ring or handle (especially of a kettle or bucket).

A stall for a cow (or other animal) (usually tethered with a semi-circular hoop).

A hinged bar as a restraint for animals, or on a typewriter.

(chiefly Australia and New Zealand) A frame to restrain a cow during milking or feeding.

A hoop, ring, or other object used to connect a pendant to a necklace.

(cricket) One of the two wooden crosspieces that rest on top of the stumps to form a wicket.

(furniture) Normally curved handle suspended between sockets as a drawer pull. This may also be on a kettle or pail.

To secure the release of an arrested person by providing bail.

(law) To release a person under such guarantee.

(law) To hand over personal property to be held temporarily by another as a bailment.

(nautical, transitive, intransitive) To remove (water) from a boat by scooping it out.

(nautical, transitive) To remove water from (a boat) by scooping it out.

To set free; to deliver; to release.

(slang) To exit quickly.

(informal, transitive with on) To fail to meet a commitment (to a person).

To secure the head of a cow during milking.

(rare) To confine.

(Australia, New Zealand) To secure (a cow) by placing its head in a bail for milking.

(Australia, New Zealand, usually with up) To keep (a traveller) detained in order to rob them; to corner (a wild animal); loosely, to detain, hold up.