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.

   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.

   1941, Emily Carr, chapter 10, in Klee Wyck

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   […] 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.

   1938, Xavier Herbert, chapter IV, in Capricornia, New York: D. Appleton-Century, published 1943, page 50

3. alternativelawAlternative form of bailor.
4. datedball gamesA delivery that heads towards the bails after pitching.
5. datedball gamesA delivery in which the ball hits one or both bails but does not dislodge them.

plural Bailers

1. A surname.