bail vs sluice box

bail

noun
  • A bucket or scoop used for removing water from a boat etc. 

  • Release from imprisonment on payment of such money. 

  • Security, usually a sum of money, exchanged for the release of an arrested person as a guarantee of that person's appearance for trial. 

  • A frame to restrain a cow during milking or feeding. 

  • The person providing such payment. 

  • A person who bails water out of a boat. 

  • A hoop, ring or handle (especially of a kettle or bucket). 

  • One of the two wooden crosspieces that rest on top of the stumps to form a wicket. 

  • A stall for a cow (or other animal) (usually tethered with a semi-circular hoop). 

  • A hoop, ring, or other object used to connect a pendant to a necklace. 

  • Normally curved handle suspended between sockets as a drawer pull. This may also be on a kettle or pail. 

  • A hinged bar as a restraint for animals, or on a typewriter. 

verb
  • To keep (a traveller) detained in order to rob them; to corner (a wild animal); loosely, to detain, hold up. 

  • To secure the release of an arrested person by providing bail. 

  • To secure the head of a cow during milking. 

  • To hand over personal property to be held temporarily by another as a bailment. 

  • To release a person under such guarantee. 

  • To remove water from (a boat) by scooping it out. 

  • To remove (water) from a boat by scooping it out. 

  • To secure (a cow) by placing its head in a bail for milking. 

  • To set free; to deliver; to release. 

  • To fail to meet a commitment (to a person). 

  • To exit quickly. 

  • To confine. 

sluice box

noun
  • A box with riffles along the bottom, used to trap heavier gold particles as water washes them and the other material along the box. 

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