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A place for the confinement of people accused or convicted of a crime.
Put (someone) in jail.
Middle English based on Latin cavea (see cage). The word came into English in two forms, jaiole from Old French and gayole from Anglo-Norman French gaole (surviving in the spelling gaol), originally pronounced with a hard g, as in goat.