Definitions
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- adverb toward
jail - adverb toward imprisonment
Etymologies
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jail + -ward
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Examples
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The policeman shoves this along the road jailward and the drunk lies at rest in it, stretched out full length, with a neat rubber bedspread drawn up over his prostrate form to screen him from drafts and save his face from the gaze of the vulgar.
Europe Revised 1910
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So they pursued their journey jailward along the old road through the woods.
Present at a Hanging and Other Ghost Stories Ambrose Bierce 1878
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I don't know what he tuck 'em for, "the young, high-couraged head turned jailward; the dark eyes flashed a resentful look after the retiring posse.
Judith of the Cumberlands Alice MacGowan
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