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▸ noun: The space immediately within the outer wall of a castle or fortress.
▸ noun: (in certain proper names) A prison or court of justice.
▸ noun: An argument which is controversial and more difficult to defend (in the context of a motte and bailey fallacy).
▸ noun: An English surname from Anglo-Norman [in turn originating as an occupation] for a steward or official.
▸ noun: An English topographic surname from someone who lived by a bailey (the outer wall of a castle).
▸ noun: An Irish surname originating as an occupation, an anglicization of Báille (“bailie”).
▸ noun: A male given name transferred from the surname.
▸ noun: (chiefly US) A female given name transferred from the surname.
▸ noun: A sea area, to the north of Rockall, centred on the former Bill Bailey Bank (now Rockall Basin).
▸ noun: A number of places in the United States:
▸ noun: An unincorporated community in Park County, Colorado.
▸ noun: An unincorporated community in Sherburne County, Minnesota.
▸ noun: An unincorporated community in Lauderdale County, Mississippi.
▸ noun: An unincorporated community in Jefferson County, Missouri; named for early settler John Martin Bailey.
▸ noun: A ghost town in Grady County, Oklahoma.
▸ noun: A minor city in Fannin County, Texas.
▸ noun: An apple cultivar from New York
Similar:
curtain wall,
bawn,
wall,
ward,
burgwall,
keep,
curtain,
cavalier,
fortification curtain,
barbican,
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