Jail

6 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Gaol \Gaol\ (j[=a]l), n. [See {Jail}.]
     A place of confinement, especially for minor offenses or
     provisional imprisonment; a jail. [Preferably, and in the
     United States usually, written {jail}.]
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     {Commission of general gaol delivery}, an authority conferred
        upon judges and others included in it, for trying and
        delivering every prisoner in jail when the judges, upon
        their circuit, arrive at the place for holding court, and
        for discharging any whom the grand jury fail to indict.
        [Eng.]
  
     {Gaol delivery}. (Law) See {Jail delivery}, under {Jail}.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Jail \Jail\, v. t.
     To imprison. [R.] --T. Adams (1614).
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           [Bolts] that jail you from free life.    --Tennyson.
     [1913 Webster] jailbird

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Jail \Jail\ (j[=a]l), 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}.]
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           This jail I count the house of liberty.  --Milton.
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     {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}.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  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) [syn: {jailhouse}, {gaol}, {clink}, {slammer}]
       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" [syn: {imprison}, {incarcerate},
            {lag}, {immure}, {put behind bars}, {jug}, {gaol}, {put
           away}, {remand}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  126 Moby Thesaurus words for "jail":
     POW camp, 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, 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
  
  

From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:

  JAIL. A prison; a place appointed by law for the detention of prisoners. A 
  jail is an inhabited dwelling-house within the statute of New York, which 
  makes the malicious burning of an inhabited dwelling-house to be arson. 8 
  John. 115; see 4 Call, 109. Vide Gaol; Prison.