This jail I count the house of liberty. --Milton.
{Jail bird}, a prisoner; one who has been confined in prison.
[Slang]
{Jail delivery}, the release of prisoners from jail, either
legally or by violence.
{Jail delivery commission}. See under {Gaol}.
{Jail fever} (Med.), typhus fever, or a disease resembling
it, generated in jails and other places crowded with
people; -- called also {hospital fever}, and {ship fever}.
{Jail liberties}, or {Jail limits}, a space or district
around a jail within which an imprisoned debtor was, on
certain conditions, allowed to go at large. --Abbott.
{Jail lock}, a peculiar form of padlock; -- called also
{Scandinavian lock}.
[Bolts] that jail you from free life. --Tennyson.
{Commission of general gaol delivery}, an authority conferred
upon judges and others included in it, for trying and
delivering every prisoner in jail when the judges, upon
their circuit, arrive at the place for holding court, and
for discharging any whom the grand jury fail to indict.
[Eng.]
{Gaol delivery}. (Law) See {Jail delivery}, under {Jail}.