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Bail is a synonym of spoon.


As a conjunction bail

is .

As a noun spoon is

an implement for eating or serving; a scooped utensil whose long handle is straight, in contrast to a ladle.

As a verb spoon is

to serve using a spoon or spoon can be .

bail

English

(wikipedia bail)

Etymology 1

From the (etyl) verb .

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 .
    Derived terms
    * jump bail * out on bail

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To secure the release of an arrested person by providing bail.
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  • (legal) To release a person under such guarantee.
  • (legal) 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
  • (nautical) To remove (water) from a boat by scooping it out.
  • to bail water out of a boat
  • * Capt. J. Smith
  • buckets to bail out the water
  • (nautical) To remove water from (a boat) by scooping it out.
  • to bail a boat
  • * R. H. Dana, Jr.
  • By the help of a small bucket and our hats we bailed her out.
  • To set free; to deliver; to release.
  • * Spenser
  • Ne none there was to rescue her, ne none to bail .
    Derived terms
    * bailment * bailor * bailee * bail out

    Etymology 2

    From a shortening of bail out, which from above.

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (slang) To exit quickly.
  • With his engine in flames, the pilot had no choice but to bail .
  • * 2010 September, Jeannette Cooperman, "Bringing It Home", , ISSN 1090-5723, volume 16, issue 9, page 62:
  • The Teacher Home Visit Program takes a huge commitment—time, energy, patience, diplomacy. Quite a few schools have tried it and bailed .
  • (informal) To fail to meet a commitment.
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  • Etymology 3

    From (etyl) beyl, from (etyl) .

    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.
  • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To secure the head of a cow during milking.
  • Etymology 4

    From (etyl) baillier.

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (rare) To confine.
  • (Australia, New Zealand) To secure (a cow) by placing its head in a bail for milking.
  • (Australia, New Zealand) To keep (a traveller) detained in order to rob them; to corner (a wild animal); loosely, to detain, hold up. (Usually with (up).)
  • * 2006 , Clive James, North Face of Soho , Picador 2007, p. 128:
  • The transition over the rooftop would have been quicker if Sellers had not been bailed up by a particularly hostile spiritual presence speaking Swedish.

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    spoon

    English

    (wikipedia spoon)

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An implement for eating or serving; a scooped utensil whose long handle is straight, in contrast to a ladle.
  • * Shakespeare
  • He must have a long spoon that must eat with the devil.
  • An implement for stirring food while being prepared; a wooden spoon.
  • A measure that will fit into a spoon; a spoonful.
  • (sports, archaic) A wooden-headed golf club with moderate loft, similar to the modern three wood.
  • (fishing) A type of metal lure resembling the concave head of a table spoon.
  • (dentistry, informal) A spoon excavator.
  • (figuratively, slang, archaic) A simpleton, a spooney.
  • (Hood)
  • A safety handle on a hand grenade, a trigger.
  • Derived terms
    * spoonbill * spooner * spoon bread * spoon-feed, spoon-fed * dessert spoon, dessertspoon * gag me with a spoon * measuring spoon * runcible spoon * silver spoon * soup spoon, soupspoon * tablespoon * teaspoon * wooden spoon

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To serve using a spoon.
  • Sarah spooned some apple sauce onto her plate.
  • (dated) To flirt; to make advances; to court, to interact romantically or amorously.
  • * 1913 ,
  • Do you think we spoon and do? We only talk.
  • (transitive, or, intransitive, slang, of persons) To lie nestled front-to-back, following the contours of the bodies, in a manner reminiscent of stacked spoons.
  • (tennis) To hit weakly
  • * {{quote-news
  • , year=2012 , date=June 28 , author=Jamie Jackson , title=Wimbledon 2012: Lukas Rosol shocked by miracle win over Rafael Nadal , work=the Guardian citation , page= , passage=Rosol spurned the chance to finish off a shallow second serve by spooning into the net, and a wild forehand took the set to 5-4, with the native of Prerov required to hold his serve for victory.}}
    Derived terms
    * spooner * big spoon, little spoon

    See also

    * cutlery * ladle * silverware

    Etymology 2

    Origin uncertain. Compare spoom.

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • * Samuel Pepys
  • We might have spooned before the wind as well as they.
    Derived terms
    * spoon-drift