bailie

[ bey-lee ]

/ ˈbeɪ li /

noun

(in Scotland) a municipal officer or magistrate, corresponding to an English alderman.

Obsolete. bailiff.

Words nearby bailie

bailable, baile átha cliath, bailee, bailey, bailey bridge, bailie, bailiff, bailiwick, baillie, bailment, bailor

Origin of bailie

1250–1300; Middle English baillie < Old French bailli, variant of baillif bailiff

OTHER WORDS FROM bailie

sub·bail·ie, noun

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Examples from the Web for bailie

Meantime the Bailie, notwithstanding the success of his first onset, was sorely bested.
Rob Roy, Complete, Illustrated|Sir Walter Scott
It is the same case with the Edinburgh bailie and the miller of the Canonmills, worthy man!
Records of a Family of Engineers|Robert Louis Stevenson
I suspect, Tom, you and the Bailie were rather convivial after supper.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, No. 382, October 1847|Various
But as the Bailie insisted, and as the party evidently wished to accept, he could not hold out.
Red Cap Tales|Samuel Rutherford Crockett

Bailie Craigdallie and a brother magistrate closed the melancholy procession, exhibiting similar marks of mourning.
The Fair Maid of Perth|Sir Walter Scott

British Dictionary definitions for bailie

bailie

/ (ˈbeɪlɪ) /

noun

(in Scotland) a municipal magistrate

an obsolete or dialect spelling of bailiff

Word Origin for bailie

C13: from Old French bailli, from earlier baillif bailiff

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