prison

Roget category 752

5. Words relating to the voluntary powers
› 5.6. General intersocial volition
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#752. [Means of restraint.] Prison

noun

prison, prison house — jail, gaol, cage, coop, den, cell — stronghold, fortress, keep, donjon, dungeon, Bastille, oubliette, bridewell^†, house of correction, hulks, tollbooth, panopticon^†, penitentiary, guardroom, lockup, hold — round house, watch house, station house, sponging house — station — house of detention, black hole, pen, fold, pound — inclosure etc. 232 — isolation (exclusion) 893 — penal settlement, penal colony — bilboes, stocks, limbo, quod [Lat.] — calaboose, chauki^†, choky^†, thana^† — workhouse [U.S.].
Newgate, Fleet, Marshalsea — King's Bench, Queen's Bench.
bond — bandage — irons, pinion, gyve, fetter, shackle, trammel, manacle, handcuff, straight jacket, strait jacket, strait-jacket, strait-waistcoat, hopples^† — vice, vise.
yoke, collar, halter, harness — muzzle, gag, bit, brake, curb, snaffle, bridle — rein, reins — bearing rein — martingale — leading string — tether, picket, band, guy, chain — cord etc. (fastening) 45 — cavesson^†, hackamore [U.S.], headstall, jaquima [U.S.], lines, ribbons.
bolt, deadbolt, bar, lock, police lock, combination lock, padlock, rail, wall, stone wall — paling, palisade — fence, picket fence, barbed wire fence, Cyclone fence, stockade fence, chain-link fence — barrier, barricade.
drag etc. (hindrance) 706.

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