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bailing

verbnounattested in dialogue

  • //ˈbeɪlɪŋ//

The act by which something is bailed.

verb

  1. 1

    Also a form of bailpresent participle and gerund of bail

noun

  1. 1

    The act by which something is bailed.

    He took a bucket and bailed the muddy stuff out right to the bottom, and let it fill up to be again bailed out. After three bailings the water came in cold, sweet, and pure as crystal.

Forms

plural
bailings
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Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).