Noun

(en noun)

Security, usually a sum of money, exchanged for the release of an arrested person as a guarantee of that person's appearance for trial.

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

(legal, UK) The person providing such payment.

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

* Captain Cook

The bail of a canoe made of a human skull.

(obsolete) Custody; keeping.

* Spenser

Silly Faunus now within their bail .

Noun

(en noun)

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

* 2010 , John M. Findley, Just Lucky , page 78,

I reached across beneath the cow to attach a metal bail' to each end of the strap so that the '''bail''' hung about 5 inches below the cow's belly.While stroking and talking to the cow, I reached under and suspended the machine on the ' bail beneath the cow, with its four suction cups dangling to one side.

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

* 1953 , British Institute of Management, Centre for Farm Management, Farm Management Association, Farm Managememt , 1960, John Wiley, page 160,

More recently, the fixed bail , sometimes called the ‘milking parlour’, with either covered or open yards, has had a certain vogue and some very enthusiastic claims have been made for this method of housing.

* 2011 , Edith H. Whetham, Joan Thirsk, The Agrarian History of England and Wales , Volume 8: Volumes 1914-1939, page 191,

Ten men thus sufficed for the milking of three hundred cows in five bails , instead of the thirty men who would normally have been employed by conventional methods.

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.

* 2011 , Bob Ellis, Hush Now, Don't Cry , page 153,

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.

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, as the wire bail handle shown in the drawing.

Noun

(en noun)

A long dowel or plank protruding from the ground; a fence post; a light post

(construction) a stud; a two-by-four

A pole in a battery

(dentistry) A long, narrow piece inserted into a root canal to provide retention for a crown.

a prolonged final melody note, among moving harmony notes

(paper, printing) A printing paper size measuring 19.25 inches x 15.5 inches

(sports) goalpost

* {{quote-news

, year=2010 , date=December 29 , author=Chris Whyatt , title=Chelsea 1 - 0 Bolton , work=BBC citation , page= , passage=But they marginally improved after the break as Didier Drogba hit the post . }}

(obsolete) The doorpost of a victualler's shop or inn, on which were chalked the scores of customers; hence, a score; a debt.

* S. Rowlands

When God sends coin / I will discharge your post .

Noun

(en noun)

(obsolete) Each of a series of men stationed at specific places along a postroad, with responsibility for relaying letters and dispatches of the monarch (and later others) along the route.

(dated) A station, or one of a series of stations, established for the refreshment and accommodation of travellers on some recognized route.

a stage or railway post

A military base; the place at which a soldier or a body of troops is stationed; also, the troops at such a station.

* Archbishop Abbot

In certain places there be always fresh posts , to carry that further which is brought unto them by the other.

* Shakespeare

I fear my Julia would not deign my lines, / Receiving them from such a worthless post .

* 2011 , Thomas Penn, Winter King , Penguin 2012, p. 199:

information was filtered through the counting-houses and warehouses of Antwerp; posts galloped along the roads of the Low Countries, while dispatches streamed through Calais, and were passed off the merchant galleys arriving in London from the Flanders ports.

An organisation for delivering letters, parcels etc., or the service provided by such an organisation.

sent via ''post'''; ''parcel '''post

* Alexander Pope

I send you the fair copy of the poem on dullness, which I should not care to hazard by the common post .

A single delivery of letters; the letters or deliveries that make up a single batch delivered to one person or one address.

A message posted in an electronic forum.

A location on a basketball court near the basket.

(American football) A moderate to deep passing route in which a receiver runs 10-20 yards from the line of scrimmage straight down the field, then cuts toward the middle of the field (towards the facing goalposts) at a 45-degree angle.

Two of the receivers ran post patterns.

(obsolete) Haste or speed, like that of a messenger or mail carrier.

* Shakespeare

In post he came.

(obsolete) One who has charge of a station, especially a postal station.

* Palfrey

He held office of postmaster, or, as it was then called, post , for several years.

Noun

(en noun)

An assigned station; a guard post.

* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-08, volume=407, issue=8839, page=52, magazine=(The Economist)

, title= The new masters and commanders , passage=From the ground, Colombo’s port does not look like much. Those entering it are greeted by wire fences, walls dating back to colonial times and security posts . For mariners leaving the port after lonely nights on the high seas, the delights of the B52 Night Club and Stallion Pub lie a stumble away.}}

An appointed position in an organization.

* {{quote-news, year=2011, date=December 14, author=Angelique Chrisafis, work=Guardian

, title= Rachida Dati accuses French PM of sexism and elitism , passage=She was Nicolas Sarkozy's pin-up for diversity, the first Muslim woman with north African parents to hold a major French government post . But Rachida Dati has now turned on her own party elite with such ferocity that some have suggested she should be expelled from the president's ruling party.}}