jailing
present participle of jail
jailing (plural jailings)
An instance of a person being jailed.
• incarceration
• imprisonment
• Lijiang
Source: Wiktionary
Jail, n. Etym: [OE. jaile, gail, gayhol, OF. gaole, gaiole, jaiole, F. geôle, 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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