Forms: see JAIL sb. [f. prec.] trans. To confine in or as in a jail; to imprison, confine.
α. 1622. Bacon, Hen. VII., 215. The Dislike the Parliament had of Gaoling of them.
1635. Heywood, Hierarchy, IX. 569. Vnwilling To be so goald, [they] struggle.
1718. Entertainer, No. 41. 280. A Design to imprison and Gaol him for Life.
1887. Times, 29 Aug., 4/5. New York aldermen, several of whom … have been gaoled for their share in the knavery.
β. 1604. T. Wright, Passions, VI. 324. They … enforce him as a iudge, like prisoners, to iayle them by iustice.
1633. T. Adams, Exp. 2 Peter ii. 22. The other are jailed up in the dark … dungeon of hell.
1787. Hist. Pelham, Mass. (1898), 375. Day, Colton, Clark and Brown, jailed—the others not found.
1875. Tennyson, Q. Mary, III. v. One, whose bolts, That jail you from free life, bar you from death.
1889. C. King, Queen of Bedlam, 265. The scoundrel had a wife in Denver, where he was finally tracked and jailed.
Hence Jailing, gaoling vbl. sb. and ppl. a.
1622. [see above].
1705. Hickeringill, Priest-cr., IV. (1721), 213. Content to … do the Priests Drudgery in Gaoling and Burning.
1862. C. J. Vaughan, Bk. & Life, 40. Not the jailing of the evil nature, but rather the exercising of the good, is the true aim and work of youthful discipline.
1869. Tennyson, Pelleas & Ettarre, 336. I will … tame thy jailing princess to thine hand.
