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Bailing vs Wailing - What's the difference?

bailing | wailing |

As verbs the difference between bailing and wailing

is that bailing is while wailing is .

As nouns the difference between bailing and wailing

is that bailing is the act by which something is bailed while wailing is a loud drawn out scream and howl.

bailing

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act by which something is bailed.
  • * Ernest Thompson Seton, Two Little Savages
    • He took a bucket and bailed the muddy stuff out right to the bottom, and let it fill up to be again bailed out. After three bailings the water came in cold, sweet, and pure as crystal.

    wailing

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A loud drawn out scream and howl.
  • *1898 , , (Moonfleet) Chapter 5:
  • *:'For as soon as I heard Tewkesbury tell of screams and wailings in the air, and no one to be seen,' said Elzevir, 'I guessed that some poor soul had got shut in the vault, and was there crying for his life.

    • Verb

    (head)
    • Craig ran off wailing because his friend pulled a prank on him.