jail
A place or institution for the confinement of persons held against their will in lawful custody or detention, especially a place where people are held for minor offenses or with reference to some future judicial proceeding.
Other meanings
Confinement in a jail.
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).
Related words
- enjail
- jailbreaker
- jaildom
- jailful
- jailish
- jailkeeper
- jailless
- jaillike
- jailmate
- jailor
- Jailtacht
- jailward
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “jail” on Wiktionary, by its contributors, published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.