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gaol::noun | Spocien Dictionary
a correctional institution used to detain persons who are in the lawful custody of the government (either accused persons awaiting trial or convicted persons serving a sentence)
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | clink, jail, jailhouse, pokey, poky, slammer |
| Type of | correctional institution |
| Has types | workhouse, holding cell, hoosegow, lockup, house of correction, bastille, hoosgow |
Examples of gaol
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Why is it they are so often just allowed to roam free when released from gaol?
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Governance centred on Feckenham at which the courthouse and gaol were located.
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His first significant commission after returning to London was Hereford gaol.
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The last assizes were held there in 1830, while the gaol was closed in 1845.
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Fourteen were sentenced to death and the rest given up to 15 years in gaol.
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In July 2005, she avoided a gaol sentence at Ringwood Magistrate's Court in Victoria.
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If anyone should be going to gaol, it should be journalists who spread misinformation.
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Anyone who broke a stannary law could find himself imprisoned in the gaol at Lydford.
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He went to gaol for the sake of his principles and suffering humanity.
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- Imprison: lock up or confine, in or as in a jail; "The suspects were imprisoned without trial"; "the murderer was incarcerated for the rest of his life"
- Jail: a correctional institution used to detain persons who are in the lawful custody of the government (either accused persons awaiting trial or convicted persons serving a sentence)
- A prison (from Old French prisoun) is a place in which people are physically confined and, usually, deprived of a range of personal freedoms. ...
- Much of the mythology of the Iroquois (a confederacy of originally Five, later Six Nations of Native Americans) has been lost. Some of their religious stories have been preserved, including creation stories and some folktales.
- Alternative spelling of jail; Preferred alternative spelling of jail; To confine in a gaol; to imprison
- (Gaols) are prisons with a long history which held prisoners until trial, sentence or punishment was carried out.
- If you dream of being confined in a gaol, you will be prevented from carrying forward some profitable work by the intervention of envious people; but if you escape from the gaol, you will enjoy a season of favorable business. See Jail.
- British spelling of jail--holding area for criminal suspects until their trials; rarely used to punish convicted criminals.
- A prison or building designated by law or used by the sheriff, for the confinement or detention of those, whose persons are judicially ordered to be kept in custody. ...
