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Definition vail
Etymology 1
Borrowed from Old French vail, from valoir (“to be worth”), from Latin vale? (“I am worth”).
Noun
vail (plural vails)
- (obsolete) Profit; return; proceeds.
- (chiefly in the plural, obsolete) Money given to servants by visitors; a gratuity; also vale.
Etymology 2
Aphetic form of avale.
Noun
vail (plural vails)
- (obsolete) Submission.
Verb
vail (third-person singular simple present vails, present participle vailing, simple past and past participle vailed)
- (intransitive, obsolete) To pay homage, bow, submit, defer (to someone or something); to yield, give way (to something).
- (transitive, obsolete) To remove as a sign of deference, as a hat.
- (transitive, obsolete) To lower, let fall; to allow or cause to sink.
- (vexillology) (transitive, current, operational) 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.
Etymology 3
Noun
vail (plural vails)
Verb
vail (third-person singular simple present vails, present participle vailing, simple past and past participle vailed)
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