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Jail - Dictionary Definition and Overview |
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Jail : (noun)
1: 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]
(verb)
1: 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]
Based on WordNet 2.0
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Jail : \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.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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Jail : \Jail\, v. t.
To imprison. [R.] --T. Adams (1614).
[Bolts] that jail you from free life. --Tennyson.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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Gaol \Gaol\, 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.]
Commission of general gaol delivery, an authority conferred
upon judges and others included in it, for trying and
delivering every prisoner inJail : 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.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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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.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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Example Usage of Jail |
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BeeJayEmCee: How the hell is @lilduval twitpic'n from Jail?! What am I missing?? lol |
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nijaSOmajor: Right. Seems fake to me. RT @ohsoKalii: How is Lil Duval openly twitpicn from Jail?! |
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DanielTheViper: @ItsKeelanbitchx If a man cheats on his wife with another person he gets 3 months in Jail if the girl cheats she gets 6 months. |
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