Gaol \Gaol\ (j[=a]l), n. [See Jail.]
A place of confinement, especially for minor offenses or
provisional imprisonment; a jail. [Preferably, and in the
United States usually, written jail.]
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Commission of general gaol delivery, an authority conferred
upon judges and others included in it, for trying and
delivering every prisoner in jail when the judges, upon
their circuit, arrive at the place for holding court, and
for discharging any whom the grand jury fail to indict.
[Eng.]
Gaol delivery. (Law) See Jail delivery, under Jail.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Jail \Jail\ (j[=a]l), n. [OE. jaile, gail, gayhol, OF. gaole,
gaiole, jaiole, F. ge[^o]le, LL. gabiola, dim. of gabia cage,
for L. cavea cavity, cage. See Cage.]
A kind of prison; a building for the confinement of persons
held in lawful custody, especially for minor offenses or with
reference to some future judicial proceeding. [Written also
gaol.]
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This jail I count the house of liberty. --Milton.
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Jail delivery, the release of prisoners from jail, either
legally or by violence.
Jail delivery commission. See under Gaol.
Jail fever (Med.), typhus fever, or a disease resembling
it, generated in jails and other places crowded with
people; -- called also hospital fever, and ship fever.
Jail liberties, or Jail limits, a space or district
around a jail within which an imprisoned debtor was, on
certain conditions, allowed to go at large. --Abbott.
Jail lock, a peculiar form of padlock; -- called also
Scandinavian lock.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
gaol
n : 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) [syn: jail, jailhouse, clink, slammer]
v : 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" [syn: imprison, incarcerate,
lag, immure, put behind bars, jail, jug, put
away, remand]
WordNet (r) 2.0
104 Moby Thesaurus words for "gaol":
POW camp, bastille, beleaguer, beset, besiege, black hole,
blockade, bolt in, borstal, borstal institution, bound, box in,
bridewell, brig, cage, cast in prison, cell, chamber, clap in jail,
clap up, close in, compass, concentration camp, condemned cell,
contain, coop, coop in, coop up, cordon, cordon off, corral,
death cell, death house, death row, detention camp, encircle,
enclose, encompass, enshrine, federal prison, fence in,
forced-labor camp, guardhouse, hedge in, hem in, hold captive,
hold in captivity, hold prisoner, house in, house of correction,
house of detention, immure, impound, imprison, incarcerate,
include, industrial school, intern, internment camp, jail,
jailhouse, jug, keep, kennel, labor camp, leaguer, lock in,
lock up, lockup, maximum-security prison, mew, mew up,
minimum-security prison, oubliette, pen, pen in, penal colony,
penal institution, penal settlement, penitentiary, pocket, prison,
prison camp, prisonhouse, quarantine, rail in, reform school,
reformatory, shrine, shut in, shut up, sponging house, stable,
state prison, stockade, surround, the hole, throw into jail,
tollbooth, training school, wall in, wrap, yard, yard up
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
GAOL. 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., This word, sometimes written jail, is said to be
derived from the Spanish jaula, a cage, (derived from caula,) in French
geole, gaol. 1 Mann. & Gran. 222, note a. Vide 6 John. R. 22; 14 Vin. Ab. 9;
Bac. Ab. h. t.; Dane's Ab. Index, h. t.; 4 Com. Dig. 619; and the articles
Gaoler; Prison; Prisoner.
Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856)
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