• A place of confinement, especially for minor offenses orprovisional imprisonment; a jail. [Preferably, and in the UnitedStates usually, written jail.] Commission of general gaol delivery,an authority conferred upon judges and others included in it, fortrying and delivering every prisoner in jail when the judges, upontheir circuit, arrive at the place for holding court, and fordischarging any whom the grand jury fail to indict. [Eng.] -- Gaoldelivery. (Law) See Jail delivery, under Jail.


    Gaol meaning & definition 1 of Gaol.


  • A chiefly British and fairly archaic term meaning jail, and pronounced the same.

    Gaol meaning & definition 2 of Gaol.


  • Shares a similar meaning with the definition of the popular slang term own or pwn; as an expression of having a pure advantage over someone or something in any skill, or form.
    Gaol is derived from the Old English spelling, or Australian spelling of the term jail. To gaol someone refers to keeping a person repressed in his or her place.
    Tenses: gaoled, gaolage
    Derivatives: gaolated (gaol violated)

    Gaol meaning & definition 3 of Gaol.


  • old-fashioned for jail

    Gaol meaning & definition 4 of Gaol.

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