Gaol Definition

jāl
gaols
noun
gaols

Jail.

Webster's New World

(UK, Ireland, Australia) Alternative spelling of jail.

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verb
gaols

(UK) Alternative spelling of jail.

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Other Word Forms of Gaol

Noun

Singular:
gaol
Plural:
gaols

Origin of Gaol

  • From Middle English gayole, gaylle, gaille, gayle, gaile, via Old French gaiole, gayolle, gaole, from Medieval Latin gabiola, for *caveola, a diminutive of Latin cavea (“cavity, coop, cage”).

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Gaol Sentence Examples

  • In 1730 William Morgan, an Irish student, visited the gaol and reported that there was a great opening for work among the prisoners.

  • The sentence was not carried out, and Peacham is said to have died in gaol (March 1616).

  • His The Gaol Cradle, who rocks it?

  • A regular police force was also established and a gaol built in the Bazaar.'

  • For some years the history of the infant settlement was that of a large gaol; the attempts made to till the soil at Farm Cove near Sydney and near Parramatta were only partially successful, and upon several occasions the residents of the encampment suffered much privation.

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Words Starting With

GGAGAO

Words Ending With

LOLAOL

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Words Starting With G and Ending With L

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