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gaol    
n. 监牢,监狱
v. 监禁,关押

监牢,监狱监禁,关押

gaol
n 1: 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) [synonym: {jail}, {jailhouse}, {gaol}, {clink},
{slammer}, {poky}, {pokey}]
v 1: 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" [synonym: {imprison}, {incarcerate},
{lag}, {immure}, {put behind bars}, {jail}, {jug}, {gaol},
{put away}, {remand}]

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}.]
[1913 Webster]

{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}.
[1913 Webster]


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}.]
[1913 Webster]

This jail I count the house of liberty. --Milton.
[1913 Webster]

{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}.
[1913 Webster]

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


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  • Which word is used more in the UK: gaol or jail?
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  • pronunciation vs spelling - GAOL origin isnt English - English . . .
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    Gaol and jail are both found, one is not a misspelling of the other, but both are close-cousins who came into English in the Middle English period from Norman and central French respectively Jail has been increasingly in popularity over gaol in all forms of English for centuries, and is now far more often found
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    It appears to be a BrE term: Stir Prison: also sterr, stur [abbr Rom sturiben, a prison, staripen, to imprison; ult štar, to imprison] 1835 [UK] Worcester Herald 26 Dec 4 3: Sturabin a gaol 1859 [UK] Hotten Dict of Modern Sl etc 52: IN STIR, to be in prison 1861 [UK] (con 1840s–50s) H Mayhew London Labour and London Poor I 219 1: Just out of ‘stir’ (jail) for ‘muzzling a
  • Meanings of word nick in British English
    Nick (The), gaol This doesn't have any relation to cave or hollow; it's much more likely a loconym created out of the action of arrest Personally, though, I'll maintain the head canon that some literate degenerates derived it via " Nick, n 2 " and " Old Nick, n " from "Old Iniquity", apparently a set figure in early modern morality plays
  • word usage - Whats the difference between: Is it ok for you?, and: Is . . .
    Is it OK for you? would be asked in order to confirm whether something provided for the other person is suitable for them, e g after giving them a cup of coffee Is it OK with you? would be asked in order to gain agreement from the other person that a proposal is acceptable, e g "Is it OK with you if we meet at 6 instead of 7?" Incidentally, the emphasis in the pronunciation is generally not
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  • Does Clink Street take its name from the prison or vice-versa?
    A place in the Borough of Southwark, formerly privileged from arrests; and inhabited by lawless vagabonds of every denomination, called, from the place of their residence, clinkers Also, a gaol, from the clinking of the prisoners' chains or fetters: he is gone to clink [The place was in Grose's day, as it had long been, the noted gaol: The Clink
  • How and when did jug come to be a slang term for prison?
    And a gaol is called a 'jug' And a sharper is a 'spieler' And a simpleton is a 'mug' 1906 New Boys’ World 29 Dec 100: You are sure to go to the ‘big jug’ for a few years You can find more evidence of its usage in Green's Dictionary of slang Jug has also meant 'bank' Here's another entry in A Dictionary of the Underworld: British and
  • When is dropping the definite (or indefinite) article permissible and . . .
    Okay, here goes: From The Ballad of Reading Gaol, by Oscar Wilde: And I and all the souls in pain, Who tramped the other ring, Forgot if we ourselves had done A great or little thing, And watched with gaze of dull amaze The man who had to swing From The Raven, by Edgar Allan Poe: Open here I flung the shutter, when, with many a flirt and flutter,





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