bailer

bail +‎ -er

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, 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.

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.

• gill bailer

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