bale/bail
bale (bāl)
Noun
- A large package of raw or finished material tightly bound with twine or wire and often wrapped: a bale of hay.
Verb. Transitive
- To wrap in a bale or in bales: a machine that bales cotton.
bail (bāl)
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.
- Release from imprisonment provided by the payment of such money.
- A person who provides this security.
Verb. Transitive
- To secure the release of by providing security.
- To release (a person) for whom security has been paid.
- Informal. To extricate from a difficult situation: always bailing you out of trouble.
- To transfer (property) to another for a special purpose but without permanent transference of ownership.
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