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Bail :: Bail (n.) The security given for the appearance of a prisoner in order to obtain his release from custody of the officer; as, the man is out on bail; to go bail for any one..

Bailey :: Bailey (n.) The space immediately within the outer wall of a castle or fortress.

Bail :: Bail (n.) A half hoop for supporting the cover of a carrier's wagon, awning of a boat, etc..

Bail :: Bail (v. t.) To lade; to dip and throw; -- usually with out; as, to bail water out of a boat..

Depositary :: Depositary (n.) One to whom goods are bailed, to be kept for the bailor without a recompense..

Ballium :: Ballium (n.) See Bailey.

Bailiff :: Bailiff (n.) Originally, a person put in charge of something especially, a chief officer, magistrate, or keeper, as of a county, town, hundred, or castle; one to whom power/ of custody or care are intrusted..

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

Reeve :: Reeve (n.) an officer, steward, bailiff, or governor; -- used chiefly in compounds; as, shirereeve, now written sheriff; portreeve, etc..

Philistine :: Philistine (n.) A bailiff.

Bailey :: Bailey (n.) The outer wall of a feudal castle.

Baillie :: Baillie (n.) Bailiff.

Sergeant :: Sergeant (n.) Formerly, in England, an officer nearly answering to the more modern bailiff of the hundred; also, an officer whose duty was to attend on the king, and on the lord high steward in court, to arrest traitors and other offenders. He is now called sergeant-at-arms, and two of these officers, by allowance of the sovereign, attend on the houses of Parliament (one for each house) to execute their commands, and another attends the Court Chancery..

Pestle :: Pestle (n.) A constable's or bailiff's staff; -- so called from its shape.

Bailable :: Bailable (a.) That can be delivered in trust; as, bailable goods..

Hundreder :: Hundreder (n.) One who has the jurisdiction of a hundred; and sometimes, a bailiff of a hundred..

Bailing :: Bailing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Bai.

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

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

Bailiffwick :: Bailiffwick (n.) See Bailiwick.

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