jail(n = noun.artifact) clink, gaol, jailhouse, pokey, poky, slammer - 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);
is a kind of correctional institution
has particulars: bastille, holding cell, hoosegow, hoosgow, house of correction, lockup, workhouse
Derived form verb jail1
jail(v = verb.social) gaol, immure, imprison, incarcerate, jug, lag, put away, put behind bars, remand - 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"
is one way to confine, detain
Derived forms noun jail1, noun jailer1, noun jailor1
Sample sentences:
They want to jail the prisoners
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. [1913 Webster]
"This jail I count the house of liberty." [1913 Webster]
To imprison. T. Adams (1614). [1913 Webster]
"[Bolts] that jail you from free life." [1913 Webster]
jail, n. & v. (also gaol)
--n.
1 a place to which persons are committed by a court for detention.
2 confinement in a jail.
--v.tr. put in jail.
Etymology:
ME gayole f. OF jaiole, jeole & ONF gaole f. Rmc dimin. of L cavea CAGE
N prison, prison house, jail, gaol, cage, coop, den, cell, stronghold, fortress, keep, donjon, dungeon, Bastille, oubliette, bridewell, house of correction, hulks, tollbooth, panopticon, penitentiary, guardroom, lockup, hold, round house, watch house, station house, sponging house, station, house of detention, black hole, pen, fold, pound, inclosure, isolation (exclusion), penal settlement, penal colony, bilboes, stocks, limbo, quod, calaboose, chauki, choky, thana, workhouse, Newgate, Fleet, Marshalsea, King's Bench, Queen's Bench, bond, bandage, irons, pinion, gyve, fetter, shackle, trammel, manacle, handcuff, straight jacket, strait jacket, strait-jacket, strait-waistcoat, hopples, vice, vise, yoke, collar, halter, harness, muzzle, gag, bit, brake, curb, snaffle, bridle, rein, reins, bearing rein, martingale, leading string, tether, picket, band, guy, chain, cord, cavesson, hackamore, headstall, jaquima, lines, ribbons, bolt, deadbolt, bar, lock, police lock, combination lock, padlock, rail, wall, stone wall, paling, palisade, fence, picket fence, barbed wire fence, Cyclone fence, stockade fence, chain-link fence, barrier, barricade, drag.