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Definition jail

Etymology

From Middle English gayole, gaylle, gaille, gayle, gaile, via Old French gaiole, gayolle, gaole, from Medieval Latin gabiola, for Vulgar Latin *caveola, a diminutive of Latin cavea (“cavity, coop, cage”). See also cage.

Noun

jail (countable and uncountable, plural jails)

  1. A place or institution for the confinement of persons held in lawful custody or detention, especially for minor offenses or with reference to some future judicial proceeding.
  2. (uncountable) Confinement in a jail.
  3. (horse racing) The condition created by the requirement that a horse claimed in a claiming race not be run at another track for some period of time (usually 30 days).
  4. In dodgeball and related games, the area where players who have been struck by the ball are confined.
  5. (computing, FreeBSD) A kind of sandbox for running a guest operating system instance.

Verb

jail (third-person singular simple present jails, present participle jailing, simple past and past participle jailed)

  1. To imprison.

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