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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
bailey
noun
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▪ And how dared he leave her standing out here in the bailey like a ... like a serf?
▪ Builth Castle Formidable earthworks remains of a substantial motte and bailey.
▪ He gathered his cloak and entered the bailey, a calmer place than the previous day.
▪ In the outer bailey an officer was shouting orders about a gate being oiled.
▪ Outside this was a citadel, fortified like the inner bailey, but containing a greater number of buildings.
▪ There was an inner bailey containing the buildings of greatest importance.
▪ This is a very special but long-abandoned eighteenth-century garden, laid out on the remains of a medieval motte and bailey castle.
▪ We wandered back into the freezing bailey.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Bailey

Bailey \Bai"ley\, n. [The same word as bail line of palisades; cf. LL. ballium bailey, OF. bail, baille, a palisade, baillier to inclose, shut.]

  1. The outer wall of a feudal castle. [Obs.]

  2. The space immediately within the outer wall of a castle or fortress. [Obs.]

  3. A prison or court of justice; -- used in certain proper names; as, the Old Bailey in London; the New Bailey in Manchester. [Eng.]
    --Oxf. Gloss.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
bailey

"wall enclosing an outer court," early 14c. (c.1200 in Anglo-Latin), baylle, variant of bail, from Old French bail "stake, palisade, brace," which is of unknown origin, perhaps ultimately connected to Latin bacula "sticks," on notion of "stakes, palisade fence." Old Bailey, seat of Central Criminal Court in London, was so called because it stood within the ancient bailey of the city wall. The surname Bailey usually is from Old French bailli, a later form of baillif (see bailiff).

Wiktionary
bailey

n. 1 The outer wall of a feudal castle. 2 The space immediately within the outer wall of a castle or fortress. 3 A prison or court of justice; -- used in certain proper names; as, the Old Bailey in London; the New Bailey in Manchester.

Gazetteer
Bailey, NC -- U.S. town in North Carolina
Population (2000): 670
Housing Units (2000): 302
Land area (2000): 0.701002 sq. miles (1.815586 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.701002 sq. miles (1.815586 sq. km)
FIPS code: 03020
Located within: North Carolina (NC), FIPS 37
Location: 35.780279 N, 78.115622 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 27807
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Bailey, NC
Bailey
Bailey, TX -- U.S. city in Texas
Population (2000): 213
Housing Units (2000): 98
Land area (2000): 0.400228 sq. miles (1.036585 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.400228 sq. miles (1.036585 sq. km)
FIPS code: 05264
Located within: Texas (TX), FIPS 48
Location: 33.434279 N, 96.165364 W
ZIP Codes (1990):
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Bailey, TX
Bailey
Bailey -- U.S. County in Texas
Population (2000): 6594
Housing Units (2000): 2738
Land area (2000): 826.691450 sq. miles (2141.120935 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.684798 sq. miles (1.773619 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 827.376248 sq. miles (2142.894554 sq. km)
Located within: Texas (TX), FIPS 48
Location: 34.110864 N, 102.816791 W
Headwords:
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Bailey, TX
Bailey County
Bailey County, TX
Wikipedia
Bailey

Bailey may refer to:

Bailey (surname)

Bailey is an occupational surname of English origin. Bailey is the 58th most common surname in England and is most commonly found in Jamaica.

Bailey (given name)

Bailey is a given name taken from an English surname meaning " bailiff".

The name is in use for both boys and girls in the United States. Bailey was the 665th most popular name for American boys born in 2007 and the 83rd most popular name for American girls. It was most popular for boys in the late 1990s, when it ranked among the top 200 names. Bailey was the 70th most popular name for boys born in England and Wales and Ireland in 2007 and was the 91st most popular name for boys born in Scotland in 2006.

Usage examples of "bailey".

Anton Bailey and Anthony Bailor were one and the same before today, huh?

Arena, Greg Arena, Bill Bailey, Jim Blaylock, Jenny Bunn, Pete Devries, Phil Dick, Jeff Fontanesi, Don Goudie, Chris Gourlay, Dashiell Hamster, Rick Harding, K.

At a table in a corner, I found certain members of my Chambers, George Frobisher, Percy Hoskins, and young Tony MacLay, now resting from their labours, their wigs lying among cups of Old Bailey tea, buns and choccy bics.

Carey, Thompson, Bailey and the policeman was looking at the dolmen, glanced up at his chief.

Tanalasta and Rowen were still a hundred paces from the bailey when they began to smell hints of death-the fetor of rotting meat, acrid whiffs of charred flesh, the musty odor of newly-opened earth.

It was a dinner party I attended-along with such diverse and interesting Republican movers and shakers as George Will, Paul Gigot, Kay Bailey Hutchinson, Trent Lott, Dick Cheney, Bill Kristol, Christine Whitman, and others-at the Huffington Mansion in Washington.

I choose George Bailey because he was the only one who came within a googol of light-years of guessing what they were.

Bailey, I understand you to say that at least up to the time of the death of Marianne van Doren, the Hudson Guaranty Bank was in no worse position than many of the top banks of the United States and better than some.

Lounge in Santa Fe, when he was young, and the Sunday edition had gone to press, with Mygatt, Peterman and Peterson, Hackler and Bailey and Alding, celebrating the end of another week, and the sweatshirt crowd jamming the bar, checking their parlay card point spreads against the sport-page results.

Below she could see a smaller circle of men had approached nearer-to the bailey wall and, in front of them, within hailing distance, Mauger de Cotsine himself, fully mailed and helmeted.

The catapults continued to feed the casks of naphtha to the fire, shortening their range every second launch so as to bring the flames closer and closer to the inner bailey.

Texans are accustomed to brawls, duke-outs, and generally peppy politics, but the firestorm of boredom engulfing the less-than-titanic contest between Kay Bailey Hutchison, a carefully moderate-by-Texas-standards Republican, and Bob Krueger, an adequate Democrat, threatened to rage out of control.

Le Guin, Charles Coleman Finlay, Arthur Porges, Dale Bailey, Joyce Carol Oates, Robert Sheckley, Ron Goulart, Adam-Troy Castro, Carol Emshwiller, Pat Murphy, Scott Bradfield, Esther M.

He spied Tamas just entering the bailey from the gate and motioned to the man to join him.

Suckling pigs were spitted and cooked over a bonfire in the lower bailey, while every lad who had a hand with the pipe or the tambor made music as best he could.