Jail /(jāl)/

Jail

n.
  1. 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.
    This jail I count the house of liberty.

Phrases & Compounds
Jail delivery
the release of prisoners from jail, either legally or by violence.
Jail delivery commission
See under Gaol.
Jail fever
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
a space or district around a jail within which an imprisoned debtor was, on certain conditions, allowed to go at large.
Jail lock
a peculiar form of padlock; -- called also Scandinavian lock.

Jail

v. t.
  1. To imprison. [R.]
    [Bolts] that jail you from free life.