Synonyms of the word

gaol

• n. (Britain, Ireland, Australia) Alternative spelling of jail.
• v. (Britain) Alternative spelling of jail.

clink

• n. (onomatopoeia) The sound of metal on metal, or glass on glass.
• v. To make a clinking sound; to make a sound of metal on metal or glass on glass; to strike materials such…
• v. (humorous, dated) To rhyme.
• n. (slang) Jail or prison, after the Clink prison in Southwark, London. Used in the phrase in the clink.
• n. Stress cracks produced in metal ingots as they cool after being cast.

confine

• v. (transitive) To restrict; to keep within bounds; to shut or keep in a limited space or area.
• v. To have a common boundary; to border; to lie contiguous; to touch; followed by on or with.
• n. Limit.

detain

• v. (transitive) To keep someone from proceeding by holding them back or making claims on their attention.
• v. (transitive) To put under custody.
• v. (transitive) To keep back or from; to withhold.
• v. (transitive) To seize goods for official purposes.

immure

• v. (transitive) To cloister, confine, imprison: to lock up behind walls.
• v. (transitive) To put or bury within a wall.
• v. (transitive, crystallography and geology, of a growing crystal) To trap or capture (an impurity); chiefly…
• n. (obsolete) A wall; an enclosure.

imprison

• v. (transitive) To put in or as if in prison; confine.

incarcerate

• v. To lock away; to imprison, especially for breaking the law.
• v. To confine; to shut up or enclose; to hem in.

jail

• n. A place or institution for the confinement of persons held in lawful custody or detention, especially…
• n. (uncountable) Confinement in a jail.
• n. (horse racing) The condition created by the requirement that a horse claimed in a claiming race not be…
• n. In dodgeball and related games, the area where players who have been struck by the ball are confined.
• v. To imprison.

jailhouse

• n. A building containing a prison.

jug

• n. A serving vessel or container, circular in cross-section and typically higher than it is wide, with a…
• n. The amount that a jug can hold.
• n. (slang) Jail.
• n. (vulgar, slang, chiefly in the plural) A woman's breasts.
• n. (New Zealand) A kettle.
• v. (transitive) To stew in an earthenware jug etc.
• v. (transitive, slang) To put into jail.
• v. (intransitive) To utter a sound like "jug", as certain birds do, especially the nightingale.
• v. (intransitive, of quails or partridges) To nestle or collect together in a covey.

lag

• adj. late.
• adj. (obsolete) Last; long-delayed.
• adj. Last made; hence, made of refuse; inferior.
• n. (countable) A gap, a delay; an interval created by something not keeping up; a latency.
• n. (uncountable) Delay; latency.
• n. (Britain, slang, archaic) One sentenced to transportation for a crime.
• n. (Britain, slang) a prisoner, a criminal.
• n. (snooker) A method of deciding which player shall start. Both players simultaneously strike a cue ball…
• n. One who lags; that which comes in last.
• n. The fag-end; the rump; hence, the lowest class.
• n. A stave of a cask, drum, etc.; especially (engineering) one of the narrow boards or staves forming the…
• n. A bird, the greylag.
• v. to fail to keep up (the pace), to fall behind.
• v. to cover (for example, pipes) with felt strips or similar material.
• v. (Britain, slang, archaic) To transport as a punishment for crime.
• v. (transitive) To cause to lag; to slacken.

pokey

• adj. (of a room, house) of small volume, cramped.
• adj. (slang) slow.
• adj. (slang, of a car) fast.
• n. (slang, with "the") prison.

poky

• n. A gambling device based on the card game poker.
• adj. Slow.
• adj. (of a room or other enclosed space) Small and cramped.
• n. (slang) Jail.

remand

• n. The act of sending an accused person back into custody whilst awaiting trial.
• n. The act of an appellate court sending a matter back to a lower court for review or disposal.
• v. To send a prisoner back to custody.
• v. To send a case back to a lower court for further consideration.
• v. (obsolete) To send back.

slammer

• n. One who, or that which, slams.
• n. (slang, usually "the slammer") Jail, prison.
• n. A tequila cocktail.
• n. One who takes part in slam-dance.
• n. In the game of Pogs, the heavier piece used to strike the stack of counters.