"bail up" meaning in English

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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "bails up",
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        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "bailing up",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "bailed up",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "bailed up",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
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      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "I'm late because Debbie bailed me up on the phone.",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To delay (someone) by talking to them."
      ],
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive) To delay (someone) by talking to them."
      ],
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        "transitive"
      ]
    },
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      "glosses": [
        "For rocks, clay, etc. to build up around a drill."
      ],
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      "links": [
        [
          "build up",
          "build up"
        ],
        [
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          "drill"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(intransitive) For rocks, clay, etc. to build up around a drill."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "intransitive"
      ]
    },
    {
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        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Australian English",
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        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "They bailed me up for fifty bucks.",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To rob (someone)."
      ],
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive, Australia) To rob (someone)."
      ],
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        "Australia",
        "transitive"
      ]
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      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To corner (someone); to hold (someone) under threat of violence; for dogs to hold people or animals at bay."
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      "links": [
        [
          "at bay",
          "at bay"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive, Australia) To corner (someone); to hold (someone) under threat of violence; for dogs to hold people or animals at bay."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Australia",
        "transitive"
      ]
    },
    {
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        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Australian English",
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      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To apply a bail to a cow (a frame to restrain a cow during milking or feeding); to enter a bail."
      ],
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      "links": [
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive, Australia) To apply a bail to a cow (a frame to restrain a cow during milking or feeding); to enter a bail."
      ],
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        "Australia",
        "transitive"
      ]
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        "Misspelling of bale up."
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  "word": "bail up"
}

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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "bails up",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "bailing up",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "bailed up",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "bailed up",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
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  ],
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      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
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  "pos": "verb",
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      ],
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        {
          "text": "I'm late because Debbie bailed me up on the phone.",
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        }
      ],
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        "To delay (someone) by talking to them."
      ],
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        "(transitive) To delay (someone) by talking to them."
      ],
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        "transitive"
      ]
    },
    {
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      ],
      "glosses": [
        "For rocks, clay, etc. to build up around a drill."
      ],
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        [
          "build up",
          "build up"
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        [
          "drill",
          "drill"
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        "(intransitive) For rocks, clay, etc. to build up around a drill."
      ],
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        "intransitive"
      ]
    },
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        "Australian English",
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      ],
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        {
          "text": "They bailed me up for fifty bucks.",
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      "glosses": [
        "To rob (someone)."
      ],
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        "(transitive, Australia) To rob (someone)."
      ],
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        "Australia",
        "transitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "Australian English",
        "English transitive verbs"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To corner (someone); to hold (someone) under threat of violence; for dogs to hold people or animals at bay."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "at bay",
          "at bay"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive, Australia) To corner (someone); to hold (someone) under threat of violence; for dogs to hold people or animals at bay."
      ],
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        "Australia",
        "transitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "Australian English",
        "English transitive verbs"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To apply a bail to a cow (a frame to restrain a cow during milking or feeding); to enter a bail."
      ],
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        [
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      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive, Australia) To apply a bail to a cow (a frame to restrain a cow during milking or feeding); to enter a bail."
      ],
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        "transitive"
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