bailing
Scooping water out
Bailing is the present participle of bail in its various senses.
Most commonly, bailing means removing water from a boat: We spent an hour bailing out the canoe.
It also means securing someone's release from jail by posting bail, or abandoning a situation: I'm bailing on the party tonight.
In skydiving or aviation, bailing out means jumping from an aircraft.
Open-top carrying vessel
- scoopFirst-reported story
- pumpFluid-moving machine
- siphonLiquid transfer tube
- bilgeShip's water-collecting depths
swamped · sinking · leaking · flooding · boat · canoe · kayak · dinghy
Binding tie or connection
- bondsmanOne who posts bail
- suretyBacker of obligation
- courtTrial venue or sports surface
- arraignmentCharge-reading court session
defendant · custody · release · pretrial · collateral · judge · hearing · conditions
Tube for sipping
- farmAgricultural land tract
- harvestingGathering mature crops
- bundlingGrouping items as one
- twineStranded cord for tying
loader · wagon · barn · cattle · feed · alfalfa · fields · tractor
Ceasing an activity
- desertingAbandoning one's obligations
- ditchingHastily discarding something
- fleeingRapid escape from danger
- escapingDeparting confinement hastily
withdrawing · retreating · leaving · abandoning · flaking · ghosting · no-show · cowardice
bucket
Open-top carrying vessel
bilge · swamped · sinking · leaking · flooding · boat · canoe · kayak · dinghy · hull
bond
Binding tie or connection
arraignment · defendant · custody · release · pretrial · collateral · judge · hearing · conditions · cash
straw
Tube for sipping
- farmAgricultural land tract
- harvestingGathering mature crops
- bundlingGrouping items as one
twine · loader · wagon · barn · cattle · feed · alfalfa · fields · tractor · baler
quitting
Ceasing an activity
- desertingAbandoning one's obligations
- ditchingHastily discarding something
- fleeingRapid escape from danger
escaping · withdrawing · retreating · leaving · abandoning · flaking · ghosting · no-show · cowardice · unreliable
- slang behaviorsgoofing off, messing around, fooling around, horsing around, slacking
- letting downdisappointing, failing, betraying, abandoning, neglecting
- quittingquit, resign, resignation, stop, end
- scoopingspooning, ladling, cupping, shoveling, troweling
- attendanceattendance, present, absent, here, attendance sheet
- betrayalbackstab, betray, betrayal, traitor, backstabber
bailingcommitting
Carrying out an act
following through · showing up · staying · honoring · sticking with it
bailingfilling
Material placed within
flooding · swamping · pouring in · taking on water · inundating
bailingdetaining
Holding in custody
incarcerating · imprisoning · holding · jailing · remanding
- bailing outEmergency departure or rescue
- bailing water
- bailing out onWithdrawing from commitment
bail, bailout, bale, bailed, bails, bailer, bailers, bailable, unbailable