bailer

See also: Bailer

English

bail +‎ -er

bailer (plural bailers)

One who bails or lades.
A utensil, as a bucket or cup, used in bailing; a machine for bailing water out of a pit.
- 1938, Xavier Herbert, Capricornia, New York: D. Appleton-Century, 1943, Chapter IV, p. 50,
  […] he had them help him fashion a mast from the sweep and attach wire stays to it and tear the jib to the shape he desired and make a bailer from canvas and wire and bent wood.
- 1941, Emily Carr, chapter 10, in Klee Wyck‎:
  Two bits was the top price that old Jenny knew. She asked two bits for everything she had to sell, were it canoe-bailer, eagle's wing, cedar-bark basket or woven mat.
(law) Alternative form of bailor
(cricket, dated) A delivery that heads towards the bails after pitching.
(cricket, dated) A delivery in which the ball hits one or both bails but does not dislodge them.

a utensil