The Collaborative International Dictionary
jailing \jailing\ n. The act or process of putting someone in prison or in jail as a lawful punishment.
Syn: imprisonment.
Wiktionary
n. An instance of a person being jailed. vb. (present participle of jail English)
Usage examples of "jailing".
He was jailing, jeans at low tide in that cool lockup look of six inches of pastel undershorts showing.
Neither young man could legally buy beer, and both had been smoking dope, stealing, lying, and jailing since they were old enough for their pants to fall off.
At the very moment West was reprimanding a driver for not wearing a seatbelt, Wheatie was jailing with his heroes in the slums off Beatties Ford Road.
He'd learn about jailing honestly, his pants falling off because they took his belt, then dropping the rest of the way when some motherfucker got the urge for his sweet little ass.
Her prisoner was jailing, wearing three pairs of boxer shorts, two pairs of shorts, the outer ones green, falling off, no belt, looking around and unable to stand still.
Since Brazil had lost a few pounds, his normal clothes were falling off as if he were jailing, so he had dipped into another drawer of jeans and shirts he'd had since high school.
It's that which may have an influence on Zek, not jailing a couple of Ferengi Citizens whose incarceration will have no effect at all on the grand nagus's business interests.
But both were traps, both prisons, jailing Drizzt within the confines of the preceding reputation of a drow elf, of any drow elf, and thus limiting Drizzt to his heritage.
The President and the National Security Council hardly want mass jailings, let alone murders, but we do feel that such a military administration for the limited term of the emergency would be accepted, even welcomed by the people, who are already close to panic.