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bail up
verb- to hold someone up; to rob someone by holding up AUSTRALIA, 1838
In common use by bushrangers during the colonial period. Transferred sense from “bail up” (to place a dairy cow into a bail for milking), from “bail” (a frame for securing a cow’s head). It could also be used intransitively to mean “to submit to being held up and robbed”. Now only used in historical novels. - They began with a prosperous station manager, bailed him up, took his money, his watch and his horse with conspicuous ease. — Bob Ellis and Anne Brooksbank, Mad Dog Morgan, p. 65, 1976
- to hold someone at bay; to corner someone AUSTRALIA, 1841
- Hey that mate of yours, Roy–a mob of dagoes got him all bailed up outside the police station! — Herb Wharton, Cattle Camp, p. 163, 1994
- to stop someone for a conversation AUSTRALIA, 1998
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