Jail-birds

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  1. 1
    plural of jail-bird form-of, plural

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"She was a five-hundred-ton boat; and besides her thirty-eight jail-birds, she carried twenty-six of a crew, eighteen soldiers, a captain, three mates, a doctor, a chaplain, and four warders."

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