bailer

See also: Bailer

English

Etymology

From bail +‎ -er.

Noun

bailer (plural bailers)

1. One who bails or lades.
2. 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^[1], 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^[2]:

     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.

3. (law) Alternative form of bailor
4. (cricket, dated) A delivery that heads towards the bails after pitching.
5. (cricket, dated) A delivery in which the ball hits one or both bails but does not dislodge them.

Derived terms

• gill bailer

Translations

a utensil

• Bulgarian: черпак (bg) (čerpak)
• Catalan: sàssola f
• French: écope (fr) f
• Greek:

  Ancient: ἀντλητήρ m (antlētḗr)

• Italian: aggottatoio m, sassola f
• Maori: tīheru, tatā
• Ngazidja Comorian: upvo class 11/10a
• Portuguese: vertedouro m, vertedoiro (pt) m, bartedouro m, bartedoiro m
• Russian: черпак (ru) m (čerpak)
• Swedish: öskar (sv) n

Anagrams

• Barile, Bel Air, Belair, Blaire, Labrie, Raible, irable, librae, rebail