Definitions for jails

jails jail

Spelling: [jeyl]
IPA: /dʒeɪl/

Jails is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 49 anagrams from letters in jails (aijls).

Definitions for jails

noun

  1. a prison, especially one for the detention of persons awaiting trial or convicted of minor offenses.

verb (used with object)

  1. to take into or hold in lawful custody; imprison.

Origin of jails

1225-75; Middle English gaiole, jaiole, jaile Old North French gaiole, Old French jaiole cage Vulgar Latin *gaviola, variant of *caveola, diminutive of Latin cavea cage

Examples for jails

Violators face up to nine months in jail or as much as $10,000 in fines.

I came here for rest and quiet, and I am going to have them, if I have to go to jail for them.

Brinsley got out of jail last July, and was desperate and aimless.

The only physician she was permitted to see was the jail doctor.

A writ by which a man may be taken out of jail when confined for the wrong crime.

Even if her clients are convicted—and she does have many now in jail—she at least brings attention to their cases.

After laying in the jail at Holly Springs about three weeks Wilson came for me.

Another had a brother in jail, who could not be got out without me.

"The jail of the county is at Welland, the county town," replied the constable.

There are millions of stories that end with black boys in jail cells.

Word Value for jails
Scrable

11

Words with friends

14

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