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bail up
verb
- informal.to confine (a cow) or (of a cow) to be confined by the head in a bail See bail 3
- tr history (of a bushranger) to hold under guard in order to rob
- intr to submit to robbery without offering resistance
- informal.tr to accost or detain, esp in conversation; buttonhole
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The ghosts would then begin to bail up water out of the sea to empty it in the boat.
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She could frighten a wildish cow and bail up anything that would stay in a yard with her.
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We rode up sharpish, and showed our revolvers, singing out to him to 'bail up'.
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The third mate seemed then somewhat cowed by my interference, and though he went round the ship and cried "Bail up!"
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Anyway, the boy will lam the cow down with a jagged yard shovel, let her out, and bail up another.
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