prisoner

A person held in custody, captivity, or a condition of forcible restraint, especially while on trial or serving a prison sentence.

One deprived of freedom of expression or action.

(take no prisoners) To kill all of an enemy or a population.

(take no prisoners) To be ruthless or unrestrained, as in an undertaking.

In mech., a piece of metal used to connect two adjacent parts of the rim of a fly-wheel. The prisoner is usually put in place in recesses in the rim while hot, so that its contraction during cooling will draw the two parts of the rim together very tightly.

One who keeps a prison; a jailer.

One who is confined in a prison by legal arrest or warrant.

A person under arrest or in custody of the law, whether in prison or not: as, a prisoner at the bar of a court.

A captive; one taken by an enemy in war.

One who or that which is deprived of liberty or kept in restraint.