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bailsman

[ beylz-muhn ]

noun

plural bailsmen.
  1. a person who gives bail or acts as surety.


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Origin of bailsman1

1860–65; bail 1 + 's 1 + -man
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Speke had his bedding amidships, spread on reeds; the cook and bailsman sat facing him, and Bombay and one Belooch behind him.

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Every man must be his own security, my dark-skinned friend, till he can find a bailsman.

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The cook and bailsman sit on the first bar, facing me; and behind them, to the stern, one-half the sailors sit in couples; whilst on the first bar behind me are Bombay and one Beluch, and beyond them to the bow, also in couples, the remaining crew.

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"Away with you, then," said Mr. Inglewood, hastily; "his may not be a replevisable case under the statute, you know, or Mr. Justice Death may not like the doctor for a main pernor, or bailsman."

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"I don't know how all that is, Annabella, but at any rate Major Grantly is to be the bailsman, and there is to be another trial at Barchester."

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