What is "baled out"

Usage examples of "baled out".

The British Censorship Bureau later notified Orwell it excised from his letter of 15 April a reference to the possible lynching of German airmen who baled out.

He took off from Germany late on Saturday in a Messerschmitt and baled out over Scotland around midnight.

She very soon discovered P for Percy at an aerodrome in Essex, and later in the night she found that M for Mother had been wrecked in a field near Dover, the crew having baled out of the disabled aircraft as soon as they were over land.

So I baled out the seas we shipped, and Johnny pulled heavily through the billows till we had reached a point three or four miles beyond the camp.

Nightingale had baled out - God knows when he would be able to produce the maps I wanted.

According to his report he had baled out at forty thousand feet, which would have exposed him to something like two hundred knots in free-fall before the chute slowed him to thirty through the upper layers.

Angajorqaq hummed when she baled out the boat with a leather cup, as much at home here as she had been on land.

Even if you got shot up, it was the adrenaline pumping that got you through the shock, helped you function until you'd baled out.

Two members of the crew, who baled out, crossed the frontier into the British Zone this morning.

The driver and one crewman baled out on the far side of the vehicle.

First, moving with all care, I gradually baled out the coracle with my sea-cap.