bayle

Noun

bail (countable and uncountable, plural bails)

1. 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.
2. (UK) Release from imprisonment on payment of such money.
3. (UK) The person providing such payment.
4. A bucket or scoop used for removing water from a boat etc.
   • The bail of a canoe […] made of a human skull.1770, James Cook, Voyages Round the World
5. A person who bails water out of a boat.
6. (obsolete) Custody; keeping.
   • Silly Faunus now within their baile.1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book VII, Canto VI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

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Noun (1)

bale (uncountable)

1. Evil, especially considered as an active force for destruction or death.
2. Suffering, woe, torment.
   • That other ſwayne, like aſhes deadly pale,
     Lay in the lap of death, rewing his wretched bale.1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book VI, Canto VII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], part II (books IV–VI), London: […] [Richard Field] for William Ponsonby, →OCLC, page 441

Noun (2)

bale (plural bales)

1. (obsolete) A large fire, a conflagration or bonfire.
2. (archaic) A funeral pyre.
3. (archaic) A beacon-fire.

Noun (3)

bale (plural bales)

1. A rounded bundle or package of goods in a cloth cover, and corded for storage or transportation.
   • So having made up my mind, I packed up in bales a quantity of precious stuffs suited for sea-trade and repaired with them from Baghdad-city to Bassorah-town, where I found ship ready for sea, and in her a company of considerable merchants.1885, Richard F. Burton, The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Night 563

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