gaol's Usage Examples:

estimated that each year, a quarter of the prisoners had died from gaol fever.

In London, gaol fever frequently broke out among the ill-kept prisoners of Newgate.

A prison, also known as a jail or gaol (dated, British, Australian, and historically in Canada), penitentiary (American English and Canadian English),.

Indeed, one year, 22 prisoners died from "gaol fever".

A new gaol was built on the site of the current Garda station in 1814, and in 1822 the old gaol was taken over for use as a lunatic.

The commission of gaol delivery required the justices to try all prisoners not yet tried by judges held in the gaols.

to allow the building of a new Cork City Gaol to replace the old gaol at the North Gate Bridge (the old gaol, which was nearly 100 years old, was on a.

The gaol was the first permanent one.

Richmond Gaol is a convict era building and tourist attraction in Richmond, Tasmania, and is the oldest intact gaol in Australia.

Building of the gaol commenced.

Synonyms:

holding cell; pokey; jail; bastille; correctional institution; jailhouse; workhouse; lockup; hoosgow; hoosegow; clink; slammer; house of correction; poky;

Antonyms:

enable; rush; accelerate; fast; cosmopolitan;