Abandons a commitment, in slang

Usage examples of bails.

Close-hauled on the starboard tack, the launch heeled to the gusts, while water poured in over the lee gunwale and the people worked hard with the bails.

But if you have the bails to lay tracks across that one yard, you have a straight shot through the center.

But if you have the bails to lay tracks across that one yard, you have a straight shot through the center.

The man seemed not to notice and drove the golf bails, one after another, far out on the green fairway.