Payment to be able to leave jail
• A bucket or scoop used in bailing water out of a boat. • To lade; to dip and throw; -- usually with out; as, to bail water out of a boat. • To dip or lade water from; -- often with out to express completeness; as, to bail a boat. • To deliver; to release. • To set free, or deliver from arrest, or out of custody, on the undertaking of some other person or persons that he or they will be responsible for the appearance, at a certain day and place, of the person bailed.