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jailed

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jail  (jl)
n.
1. A place for the confinement of persons in lawful detention, especially persons awaiting trial under local jurisdiction.
2. Detention in a jail.
tr.v. jailed, jail·ing, jails
To detain in or as if in a jail.
[From Middle English jaiole (from Old French) and from Middle English gaiol, gaol (from Old North French gaiole), both from Vulgar Latin *gaviola, from Latin *caveola, diminutive of cavea, cage, hollow.]
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Adj.1.jailed - being in captivity
captive, imprisoned, confined
unfree - hampered and not free; not able to act at will
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I borrowed three dollars from Judge Thatcher, and pap took it and got drunk, and went a-blowing around and cussing and whooping and carrying on; and he kept it up all over town, with a tin pan, till most midnight; then they jailed him, and next day they had him before court, and jailed him again for a week.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Twain, Mark View in context
He got to robbing when he was nineteen or twenty, and they jailed him; but he broke jail and got away--up North here, somers.
Tom Sawyer Detective by Twain, Mark View in context
Five years ago you drove me away from your father's kitchen one night, when I come to ask for something to eat, and you said I warn't there for any good; and when I swore I'd get even with you if it took a hundred years, your father had me jailed for a vagrant.
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