Gaol
[dʒeil]
Definition
(n.) A place of confinement, especially for minor offenses or provisional imprisonment; a jail.
Inputed by Erma
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [Written also and usually Jail.] Prison.
Typed by Eliza
Unserious Contents or Definition
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.
Checker: Millicent
Examples
- You'd have been screwed in gaol, Bute, if I had not kept your money. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Mrs. Bute's intentions with regard to Miss Betsy Horrocks were not carried into effect, and she paid no visit to Southampton Gaol. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Yet I would rather die under my own roof than in a gaol. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- Send him to gaol now, and you make him a gaol-bird for life. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- Mr. Crawley, you'll make out her committal--and, Beddoes, you'll drive her over in the spring cart, in the morning, to Southampton Gaol. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- You go about so gloomily, and look at the heath as if it were somebody's gaol instead of a nice wild place to walk in. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- That chap will be in gaol in two years, Mr. Higgs said to Mr. Poe. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- There were tortures and executions, as well as a great crowding of the gaols with Christian presbyters and bishops. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
Checked by Judith