From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
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]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
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}.
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
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) [syn: {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" [syn: {imprison}, {incarcerate},
{lag}, {immure}, {put behind bars}, {jail}, {jug}, {gaol},
{put away}, {remand}]
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