Usually means: Enclosed outer wall of castle.
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General (24 matching dictionaries)
  1. Bailey, bailey: Merriam-Webster
  2. Bailey, bailey: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. bailey: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. bailey: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Bailey, bailey: Vocabulary.com
  6. Bailey, bailey: Wordnik
  7. Bailey, bailey: Wiktionary
  8. bailey: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. bailey: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. Bailey, bailey: Dictionary.com
  11. bailey: Online Etymology Dictionary
  12. Bailey (castle), Bailey (disambiguation), Bailey (dog), Bailey (fortification), Bailey (given name), Bailey (surname), Bailey (wrestler), Bailey, The Bailey: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. Bailey: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. bailey: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. bailey: Rhymezone
  16. Bailey: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. Bailey: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  18. bailey: FreeDictionary.org
  19. bailey: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. Bailey: TheFreeDictionary.com
  21. bailey: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  22. bailey: Merriam-Webster

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. bailey: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology
  2. BAILEY: The Britannia Lexicon (Middle Ages Glossary)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Bailey: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. baby names list (No longer online)
  2. Arms and Armour (No longer online)
  3. Bailey: Castle Terms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Bailey, The Bailey: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Urban Conservation Glossary (No longer online)

(Note: See baileys as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  The outer wall of a feudal castle.
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

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