EGAVE

vail

About 0.61 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. noun Profit; return; proceeds.
  2. noun Money given to servants by visitors; a gratuity; also vale.
  3. noun Submission.
  4. verb To lower, let fall; to allow or cause to sink.
  5. verb To lower or “dip” a carried flag or banner in a salute by a forward reducing of the angle of the pike/flagstaff with respect to the ground; in extreme instances, as when saluting a monarch, both the banner and the finial of the pike are allowed to rest upon the ground.
  6. verb To lower a sail, in salute or otherwise.
  7. verb To remove as a sign of deference, as a hat.
  8. verb To pay homage, bow, submit, defer (to someone or something); to yield, give way (to something).

Similar words

maple stormont ballou availment vailer value valure vaut benefice vallidom

Often followed by

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Word family

vailed vailing vails

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