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English
Etymology
From bail + -er.
Noun
bailer (plural bailers)
- One who bails or lades.
- A utensil, as a bucket or cup, used in bailing; a machine for bailing water out of a pit.
1938, Xavier Herbert, chapter IV, in Capricornia, New York: D. Appleton-Century, published 1943, page 50:[…] he had them help him fashion a mast from the sweep and attach wire stays to it and tear the jib to the shape he desired and make a bailer from canvas and wire and bent wood.
1941, Emily Carr, chapter 10, in Klee Wyck:Two bits was the top price that old Jenny knew. She asked two bits for everything she had to sell, were it canoe-bailer, eagle's wing, cedar-bark basket or woven mat.
- (law) Alternative form of bailor
- (cricket, dated) A delivery that heads towards the bails after pitching.
- (cricket, dated) A delivery in which the ball hits one or both bails but does not dislodge them.
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