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▪ I. ˈbailer1
[f. bail v.4 + -er1.]
1. He who or that which bails water out; a man employed to bail out a ship; a utensil used for this purpose, a machine constructed to lift and throw out water from a pit, etc.
1883Kingston Paddy Finn xv. 190 There was no bailer; but I had seized my hat. 1883Century Mag. July 330/1 The ‘sand-pump’ and ‘bailer,’ employed to take up and hoist out the pulverized rock and water. 1883Daily News 15 Sept. 2/7 (Shipping), [Ship] Hardwick..half full of water..Bailers have been employed.
2. attrib. bailer shell, the shell of a gastropod mollusc of the genus Cymbium found in the south-western Pacific, also called melon-shell; also, the mollusc itself.
1908E. J. Banfield Confessions of Beachcomber i. iv. 148 The bailer shell alive is like an egg, in the fact that it is full of meat. 1926Austral. Encycl. II. 135/2 The most useful of all molluscs was the Melon or Bailer-shell (Cymbium flammeum), which served for a canoe-bailer. 1929Times 2 Aug. 14/1 Several melon or bailer shells were as large as footballs. 1947I. L. Idriess Isles of Despair viii. 56 Many a bailer shell filled with rich turtle soup. 1955A. Ross Australia 55 121 Beautiful bailer shells, so-called because the natives use them to bail from their canoes.
▪ II. ˈbailer2 Cricket.
[f. bail n.4 + -er1.]
A ball so bowled as to hit the bails.
1833J. Mitford in Gentl. Mag. Sept. 236/1 [The practice of going out to meet the ball] saves alike the fingers and the wickets from a first-rate top-bailer. 1865Field 9 Sept. 189/2 Mr. Sale..at length bowled Capt. Parnell with an irresistible bailer. 1881Daily News 29 June 2/6 (Cricket), A fine bailer from Studd beat Peake when 246 had been made. 1882Daily Tel. 27 May, A bailer from Jones just managed to destroy his chance. |