Normally curved handle suspended between sockets as a drawer pull. This may also be on a kettle or pail.
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.
A bucket or scoop used for removing water from a boat etc.
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.
A hinged bar as a restraint for animals, or on a typewriter.
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.
The lever or pedal that controls this valve.
A valve that regulates the supply of fuel-air mixture to an internal combustion engine and thus controls its speed; a similar valve that controls the air supply to an engine.
To utter with breaks and interruption, in the manner of a person half suffocated.
To have the throat obstructed so as to be in danger of suffocation; to choke; to suffocate.
To control or adjust the speed of (an engine).
To breathe hard, as when nearly suffocated.
To cut back on the speed of (an engine, person, organization, network connection, etc.).
To strangle or choke someone.