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Example sentences for "bailer"

Lexicographically close words:
bail; bailable; baile; bailed; bailee; bailes; baileys; baili; bailies; bailiff
  1. The captain loonie began to ball, an' a gey wild-lookin' bailer he was.

  2. Efter a lang laberlethan, the bailer got three shies at Batchy's wickets, because he tried to het what they ca'd a sneak.

  3. Twas aboard a Black-Bailer I first served my time, And in that Black-Bailer I wasted my prime.

  4. There was only one bailer in the boat, and there was nothing else in the shape of a can or pail.

  5. We'll get the bailer from the cabin locker and throw it out.

  6. A second raid was made upon Nelly's wardrobe--two big bailer shells.

  7. The animal inhabiting a large-sized bailer weighs several pounds, the flesh being tough, leathery and of unwholesome appearance.

  8. The bailer shell alive is like an egg, in the fact that it is full of meat.

  9. I soon had plenty of glue, and of a good quality also, which I poured out into a large clam-shell, and filled my bailer again with water to boil and cleanse it out.

  10. I took the bailer and rushed to the ocean, and saturated, by repeated trips, the sand under which my tube was buried.

  11. I then took off my clothes again and waded into the sea with my harpoon, and soon had on shore one of my dog-shark friends, and his bladder and fins in a short time in my bailer over a slow fire, for I wanted some glue badly.

  12. He sent down another bailer on the end of the ten-mile cable, but he left it there; he did not care to raise it and risk more inexplicable results with the consequent destruction of the men's morale.

  13. The long bailer came out at last; there was just room to hoist it clear and let it drop back upon the drilling floor.

  14. To the waiting Riley he said: "Hook a bailer onto that cable and send it down.

  15. Now do you really expect me to believe that a thing like that bailer has been carried off?

  16. Then one of them pointed above toward the open shaft that Rawson had drilled, the shaft up which the bailer had gone.

  17. The bore, at this depth, had been reduced to eight inches; the bailer fitted it loosely.

  18. Then the bailer lifted, clanged loudly as it entered the shattered bore in the rocks above, and scraped noisily at the sides.

  19. When you get so you can believe a forty-foot bailer can vanish into thin air, then you'll be ready for what I've got.

  20. At B the same single act of planting the bat cannot both cover a bailer and stop a shooter.

  21. This back play gives as long a sight of the ball as possible, and enables the player either to be up for a bailer or down for a shooter.

  22. But he did, though he skimmed the wide-mouthed well so close that the bailer stared into its dark depths with bulging eyes.

  23. The blanched bailer in the stern could have touched it with his hand as the boat whipped around the corner, clearing it by so small a margin that it seemed to him his heart stood still.

  24. Then, at the risk of having every rib crushed in, they saw the bailer throw his body across the sweep and hold it down before it quite leaped from its pin.

  25. The bailer in the stern changed color and no one spoke.

  26. As he reached the rail and looked down, he saw that it was a large, flat bottomed rowboat, with nothing in it except a wooden bailer shaped like an ordinary shovel.

  27. At the thought of all that it would mean to his country if he drowned with his secret, Bert fell to with the scoop with furious energy, but was not able to hold his terrible pace long, and finally flung down the bailer in despair.

  28. During that moment of inattention the bailer had stuck.

  29. He eased the brake and the massive bailer slid into the casing as a heavy shell slips into the breech of a cannon.

  30. Nor did he take his eyes from his task until the drum had ceased revolving and the runaway bailer hung motionless in the well.

  31. He kicked and fought it as he would have fought the closing folds of a python, for the bailer was falling again and the wire loops were vanishing as the coils in a whiplash vanish during its flight.


  32. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "bailer" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.