Vailed vs Bailed - What's the difference?

vailed | bailed |

As verbs the difference between vailed and bailed

is that vailed is (vail) while bailed is (bail).

vailed

English

Verb

(head)

(vail)

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vail

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) .

Noun

(en noun)

(obsolete) profit; return; proceeds.

* Chapman

My house is as were the cave where the young outlaw hoards the stolen vails of his occupation.

(chiefly, in the plural, obsolete) Money given to servants by visitors; a gratuity; also vale .

(Dryden)

Etymology 2

Aphetic form of

Noun

(en noun)

(obsolete) submission

Verb

(en verb)

(obsolete) To yield.

* South

Thy convenience must vail to thy neighbor's necessity.

(obsolete) To remove as a sign of deference, as a hat.

* Shakespeare

France must vail her lofty-plumed crest!

* Sir Walter Scott

without vailing his bonnet or testifying any reverence for the alleged sanctity of the relic

To let fall; to allow or cause to sink.

* Shakespeare

Vail your regard / Upon a wronged, I would fain have said, a maid!

Etymology 3

Noun

(en noun)

Verb

(en verb)

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bailed

English

Verb

(head)

(bail)

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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.

(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.

* '>citation

(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.

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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