Topic Thesaurus
Roget's Thesaurus

Prison (Means of restraint)

Nouns
  • 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. Inclosure
  • isolation (exclusion) Seclusion. Exclusion
  • penal settlement, penal colony
  • bilboes, stocks, limbo
  • 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) [Connecting medium.] Connection
  • 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) Hindrance.