A prison.

With article or other designation. A building or other facility to which people are legally committed as punishment for a crime or while awaiting…

A place or building for the confinement of persons accused or convicted of a crime or offence; a prison. Now, a public building for the detention…

A place of confinement; a cell, prison.

A low flat-built seagoing vessel with one deck, propelled by sails and oars, formerly in common use in the Mediterranean. Cf. galliass, n. The…

A prison.

†(a) A prison (cf. sense 3). Obsolete. (b) Each of the divisions or separate departments of a prison.

Confinement, imprisonment; prison. Obsolete.

A building that is or serves as a prison. Frequently figurative.

(see quot. 1593).

= jail, n.

A town prison, a jail.

The name formerly given in various towns (as York, Lancaster, etc.) to the lock-up or prison.

The name of a noted prison in Southwark; later used elsewhere (esp. in Devon and Cornwall) for a small and dismal prison or prison-cell, a lock-up…

(a) a place where guard is kept; (b) Scottish a place of confinement for prisoners.

the hangman's budget. Obsolete.

Any prison. Also: a situation likened to Newgate prison, as by being restrictive, confining, etc. Obsolete.

transferred. A place of torture; a prison.

Prison; jail; the lock-up. Also figurative, an entanglement, difficulty.

The stocks; prison.

jail, prison.

‘A cant name for prison’ (Nares); perhaps rather, the stocks.

A place in which a person or persons may be confined; spec. (originally U.S.) a prison cell, a prison.

Used esp. as the name of certain other prisons; gen. a prison.

a house built of logs; in early use (U.S.) applied to a prison; also attributive in log-house quilting (see quot.).

In extended use: any prison. Also figurative and in figurative contexts.

A prison. Cf. nask, n.

(a) a prison managed by the State; (in early use) spec. †one in which political offenders are held (obsolete); (b) a prison managed by the state…

A prison.

a prison.

ironor stone doublet: a prison. Obsolete slang.

slang. A prison. (figurative from 7.)

A prison. Cf. naskin, n.

Prison, the state of imprisonment; (also) †a prison. Frequently in in quod.

slang. A prison. Obsolete.

gen. A place of confinement as punishment.

British slang (originally cant). Originally: (a nickname for) Newgate prison in London. Later sometimes more generally: any prison. Obsolete.

slang. A prison.

slang. A prison.

slang. A nickname for Newgate prison, or for a prison in general.

The name, in New Orleans and adjacent parts of the U.S., for a common prison.

Australian slang. A prison or detention centre for women, esp. that at Parramatta, New South Wales, where cloth was manufactured by inmates. Also…

A pen or enclosure for bulls; spec. a square enclosure made of logs, frequently used in early times as a place of confinement; hence, a lock-up or…

(See quots.)

A prison or cell.

slang. A prison, jail; more fully stone jug, n. 2. Originally U.S.

A prison, jail, or lock-up; a house of correction.

A heap of stones; frequently with allusion to the convict's task of breaking stones. Hence (U.S. slang): a jail or prison; (humorously) any place in…

A place for the confinement of prisoners; a jail. Now rare (in later use U.S. regional).

In Turkey and central Asia: a place in which people are held captive; a prison, a dungeon.

colloquial. Chiefly Australian. Short for model prison n. at compounds 2. Also: time served in a model prison; esp. in to do model.

slang. A prison. Obsolete. rare.

A house of detention; a penitentiary.

slang. A prison, a guardhouse. Now rare.

A prison. Also without article, esp. in in stir.

A jail or prison.

slang (originally U.S.). A place of incarceration; a lock-up; a prison. Cf. booby, n.1 5 booby-hutch, n. 4a. Now rare (chiefly historical).

= calaboose, n. slang (originally U.S.).

slang (originally U.S.). A prison, a jail. Also: a prison cell.

a jail.

In this sense also English slang, and by association with choke, variously misused.

A prison.

slang (originally Australian). A prison; a lock-up, esp. one at a police station. Also: a police station.

slang. = chokey, n. 2: the lock-up, prison.

plural. Australian slang. A jail or lock-up. (Formerly built of logs. Cf. log-house n. at compounds 2.)

U.S. slang. A place of incarceration; a lock-up; a prison. Cf. booby hatch, n. 2a and booby-hutch, n. 4a. Now rare.

slang. Originally U.S. Prison.

Prison.

slang (originally and chiefly U.S.). Chiefly with the: a prison, a jail; a cell in a police station. Also: imprisonment, time spent in prison.

in the war of 1914–18, a camp in which aliens and others were kept under restraint; also applied to other places of incarceration.

Chiefly with the. Prison, jail.

Prison, jail. Usually with the: occasionally the slammers. Cf. slam, n.1 4 slang (originally U.S.).

Prison. U.S. slang.

= slammer, n.1 3. Usually with the. Chiefly U.S. slang.