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Jail logo #10101) Alternative of bail 2) Bad Monopoly space 3) Bastille 4) Big house 5) Big house, so to speak 6) Bird or break start 7) Bridewell 8) Building with bars 9) Can Jack be sick 10) Carceral site 11) Clink 12) Cooler 13) Corner after GO 14) Corner in Monopoly 15) Corner Monopoly space 16) Corner Monopoly square
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Jail logo #10101) Bastille 2) Big house 3) Brig 4) Calaboose 5) Hoosegow 6) Hoosgow 7) Immure 8) Imprison 9) Incarcerate 10) Jailhouse 11) Lockup 12) Pokey 13) Prison 14) Stir
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Jail logo #21002• (n.) 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. • (v. t.) To imprison.
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Jail logo #21570It is the position of the ball where it cannot be struck or advanced. So its like the ball is in jail.
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jail logo #20973A 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. ... Alternative forms: gaol] 'This jail I count the house of liberty.' (Milton) Jail bird, a prisoner; one who has been confined in prison. Jail delivery, the release of prisoners fr...
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Jail logo #20972Jail noun [ Middle English jaile , gail , gayhol , Old French gaole , gaiole , jaiole , French geôle , Late Latin gabiola , dim. of gabia cage, for Latin cavea cavity, cage. See Cage .] A kind of prison; a building for ...
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Jail logo #20972Jail transitive verb To imprison. [ R.] T. Adams (1614). « [ Bolts] that jail you from free life.» Tennyson.
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Jail logo #21212A prison; a place appointed by law for the detention of prisoners. In the past the terms jail and prison were used interchangably, but today 'jail' usually refers to local detention facilities where the criminally accused are initially taken to be processed, to await trial, and where short usually less than one year - sentences for criminal misco.....
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jail logo #20400[n] - a correctional institution used to detain persons who are in the lawful custody of the government (either accused persons awaiting trial or convicted persons serving a sentence)
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jail logo #21009jail 1. A secure place for keeping people found guilty of minor crimes or awaiting legal judgment. 2. A place for the confinement of people in lawful detention, especially those awaiting trial under local jurisdiction; detention in a jail. 3. Etymology: From about 1275, gayhol, from Old Normandy French gaiole and Old French jaole, both meaning 'a...
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jail logo #20974jailhouse noun a correctional institution used to detain persons who are in the lawful custody of the government (either accused persons awaiting trial or convicted persons serving a sentence)
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