Thesaurus: jail

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1. n. 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.
2. v. t. To imprison.
3. 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)
4. v. lock up or confine, in or as in a jail
5. 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. To imprison. [R.] T. Adams (1614). [Bolts] that jail you from free life. Tennyson.
6. A kind of prison; a building for the confinement of personsheld in lawful custody, especially for minor offenses or withreference 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 legallyor 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; -- calledalso hospital fever, and ship fever.-- Jail liberties, or Jail limits, a space or district around a jailwithin which an imprisoned debtor was, on certain conditions, allowedto go at large. Abbott.-- Jail lock, a peculiar form of padlock; -- called alsoScandinavian lock.
7. v:24/n:76 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)