About The Word Jail
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Jail Definition And Meaning |
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What's The Definition Of Jail?
[n] a correctional institution used to detain persons who are in the lawful custody of the government (either accused persons awaiting trial or convicted persons serving a sentence)
[v] lock up or confine, in or as in a jail; "The suspects were imprisoned without trial"; "the murderer was incarcerated for the rest of his life" Synonyms | Synonyms for Jail: clink | gaol | gaol | immure | imprison | incarcerate | jailhouse | jug | lag | put away | put behind bars | remand | slammer Related Terms | Find terms related to Jail: bastille | beleaguer | beset | besiege | big house | black hole | blockade | bolt in | borstal | borstal institution | bound | box in | bridewell | brig | bucket | caboose | cage | calaboose | can | cast in prison | cell | chamber | chokey | clap in jail | clap up | clink | close in | college | compass | concentration camp | condemned cell | confine | constrain | contain | cooler | coop | coop in | coop up | cordon | cordon off | corral | death cell | death house | death row | detain | detention camp | encircle | enclose | encompass | enshrine | federal prison | fence in | forced-labor camp | freezer | gaol | guardhouse | guardroom | hedge in | hem in | hold captive | hold in captivity | hold prisoner | hoosegow | house in | house of correction | house of detention | immure | impound | imprison | incarcerate | include | industrial school | intern | internment camp | jailhouse | jug | keep | kennel | labor camp | leaguer | lock in | lock up | lockup | maximum-security prison | mew | mew up | minimum-security prison | nick | oubliette | pen | pen in | penal colony | penal institution | penal settlement | penitentiary | pocket | pokey | POW camp | prison | prison camp | prisonhouse | quarantine | quod | rail in | reform school | reformatory | rock pile | send down | shrine | shut in | shut up | slammer | sponging house | stable | state prison | stir | stockade | surround | the hole | throw into jail | tollbooth | training school | wall in | wrap | yard | yard up See Also | bastille | confine | correctional institution | detain | holding cell | hoosegow | hoosgow | house of correction | lockup | pokey | workhouse Jail In Webster's Dictionary \Jail\, n. [OE. jaile, gail, gayhol, OF. gaole, gaiole,
jaiole, F. ge[^o]le, LL. gabiola, dim. of gabia cage, for L.
cavea cavity, cage. See {Cage}.]
A kind of prison; a building for the confinement of persons
held in lawful custody, especially for minor offenses or with
reference to some future judicial proceeding. [Written also
{gaol}.]
This jail I count the house of liberty. --Milton.
{Jail bird}, a prisoner; one who has been confined in prison.
[Slang]
{Jail delivery}, the release of prisoners from jail, either
legally or by violence.
{Jail delivery commission}. See under {Gaol}.
{Jail fever} (Med.), typhus fever, or a disease resembling
it, generated in jails and other places crowded with
people; -- called also {hospital fever}, and {ship fever}.
{Jail liberties}, or {Jail limits}, a space or district
around a jail within which an imprisoned debtor was, on
certain conditions, allowed to go at large. --Abbott.
{Jail lock}, a peculiar form of padlock; -- called also
{Scandinavian lock}.
\Jail\, v. t. To imprison. [R.] --T. Adams (1614). [Bolts] that jail you from free life. --Tennyson. |
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