bailed

Verb

bail (third-person singular simple present bails, present participle bailing, simple past and past participle bailed)

1. To secure the release of an arrested person by providing bail.
   • For the first time, the arrests broadened beyond payments to police, with a Ministry of Defence employee and a member of the Armed forces held by police before also being bailed to a date in May.2012 February 11, David Barrett, “Rupert Murdoch moves to reassure Sun staff after arrests”, in The Telegraph, UK
2. To release a person under such guarantee.
3. 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
4. (intransitive, transitive) To remove (water) from a boat by scooping it out.
   • to bail water out of a boat
5. (transitive) To remove water from (a boat) by scooping it out.
   • to bail a boat
6. To set free; to deliver; to release.
   • Ne none there was to reskue her, ne none to baile.1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto IX”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 7

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