Defended outer enclosure of a castle.
1The carpenters had erected a gallery and lists in the outer bailey.
2A series of banks and ditches, an outer bailey, alert the visitor to its defensive nature.
3Soldiers were playing dice by the gateway, and horses were stamping and feeding in the outer bailey.
4Against the west wall of the outer bailey hunkered some forty frowth giants, each twenty feet tall.
5While his men were doing military exercises in the outer bailey, John had taken to his bee fields.
6The horses' legs moved through low-lying evening mists as they passed under the portcullis into the outer bailey.
7Step by step he forced him back, until presently they were free of the wall and into the outer bailey.
8The trumpet rang out, and the horsemen, breaking from square into column, filed out of the courtyard and across the outer bailey.
9The keep, the fosse, the inner and outer bailey, the general construction, were much the same in all fortresses of Normandy or Norman Britain.
10In another hour she was demanding of the porter at the outer bailey Messire Prosper le Gai, in the name of his servant Roy.
11Still speaking no word the monarch rode to the great gate, crossed the bridge, and entered, and once within the outer bailey, looked about him.
12The outer baileys are defended by some great towers of massive Norman masonry from which you look all over the town and surrounding country.
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