Brazil is the largest coffee producer in the world. Each year Brazil exports more than 44 million bags of coffee. Vietnam follows at exporting over 27 million bags each year.
JAILING
Verb
jailing
present participle of jail
Noun
jailing (plural jailings)
An instance of a person being jailed.
Synonyms
• incarceration
• imprisonment
Anagrams
• Lijiang
Source: Wiktionary
JAIL
Jail, n. Etym: [OE. jaile, gail, gayhol, OF. gaole, gaiole, jaiole, F. geĂ´le, LL. gabiola, dim. of gabia cage, for L. cavea cavity, cage. See Cage.]
Definition: 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.
Jail, v. t.
Definition: To imprison. [R.] T. Adams (1614). [Bolts] that jail you from free life. Tennyson.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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