Additional examples are adjusted to the entries in an automated way - we cannot guarantee that they are correct.
By holding his thumb over the bottom hole he could also use it for a bailing can.
Or, as the Chinese say, to becoming a bailing, a white collar.
Three days of continuous bailing were required to help keep her afloat.
In Bailing, teams had to pour water into a boat until it submerged.
A good sailor kept his lines clear and his bailing can handy.
Every so often one or other would pick up a bucket and do a bit of desultory bailing, for no very intelligent reason.
Johlarian agreed with the bailing, but thought some sort of pump could be arranged.
Below decks a number of galley slaves had been unshackled to help with the bailing.
In wet seasons the water accumulates at a rate necessitating periodic bailing.
Most of the bailing fell to a midbowman named Matt Mitchell.
Most of these craft were ancient and decrepit and many could only be kept afloat by constant bailing.
For now, there is frantic bailing.
There was no bailing can.
Then there was the bailing.
Hand me the bailing can.
There's no need for any more bailing, Lant."
He took off the decking and bailed out the water on the keel with his bailing can, keeping an eye out for the old woman.
They witness the bailing of a helicopter pilot that night, and head inland to find them, encountering several pieces of luggage on the way.
If not properly acknowledged and worshipped, a common Yoruba expression warns, "life is the bailing of waters with a sieve."
Our guest's additional weight along with the sloshing water at our feet (despite our diligent bailing) made us too heavy to maneuver.
It was several seconds before I realized I wasn't holding the bailing can, which had been snatched from me by Retch.
The James Caird was taking on water in heavy seas and in danger of sinking, kept afloat by continuous bailing.
The bull's charge had sprung the underwater planking and we were taking enough water to necessitate constant bailing of the bilges with leather buckets.
And if Alvin's equal, why should I summon him to bail me out of a situation which, for all I know right now, might need no bailing?
The five men in the lifeboat soon lost all their provisions, as they were washed out in the heavy sea, and they had to keep up a continuous bailing.