bailey

plural baileys

1. The outer wall of a feudal castle.
2. The space immediately within the outer wall of a castle or fortress.
3. A prison or court of justice.

   the Old Bailey in London; the New Bailey in Manchester

4. An argument which is controversial and more difficult to defend (in the context of a motte and bailey fallacy).

   "Birds are dinosaurs" is the bailey; "birds are more similar to dinosaurs than anything else" is the motte.

   2023 February 10, “Why Birds Are Not Dinosaurs (And Why It Matters)”, in Answers in Genesis, archived from the original on 15 Mar 2023

plural Baileys · alternative Bailie · alternative Baily · alternative Bayly · alternative Bayley · alternative Bailee · alternative Baylee

1. countableA surname.

   “I did not initiate, welcome, encourage, engage in, or learn from much less enjoy, [Adam] Bailey’s tirade. I did not base any part of any of my rulings on it, as Bailey has outlandishly, mistakenly, and defamatorily claimed,” Engoron wrote.

   2024 July 25, Kara Scannell, “Judge who ordered Trump to pay $454 million says he was ‘accosted’ by lawyer and won’t recuse himself from case”, in CNN

   1. countableuncountableAn English surname from Anglo-Norman [in turn originating as an occupation] for a steward or official.
   2. countableuncountableAn English topographic surname from someone who lived by a bailey (the outer wall of a castle).
   3. countableuncountableAn Irish surname originating as an occupation, an anglicization of Báille (“bailie”).
2. A unisex given name
   1. countableuncountableA male given name transferred from the surname.
   2. UScountableuncountableA female given name transferred from the surname.
3. A placename
   1. countableuncountableA sea area, to the north of Rockall, centred on the former Bill Bailey Bank (now Rockall Basin), located in the Atlantic.
   2. countableuncountableAn unincorporated community in Park County, Colorado.
   3. countableuncountableAn unincorporated community in Sherburne County, Minnesota.
   4. countableuncountableAn unincorporated community in Lauderdale County, Mississippi.
   5. countableuncountableAn unincorporated community in Jefferson County, Missouri; named for early settler John Martin Bailey.
   6. countableuncountableA town in Nash County, North Carolina.
   7. countableuncountableA ghost town in Grady County, Oklahoma.
   8. countableuncountableA minor city in Fannin County, Texas.

plural Baileys

1. An apple cultivar from New York