gaol's Usage Examples:

"He acquiesced in the earl's dictatorship; left to his eldest son, Edward, the difficult task of reorganizing the royal party; marched with the Montfortians to Evesham; and narrowly escaped sharing the fate of his gaoler.

Still the progress of improvement was extremely slow, and the managers of gaols still evaded or ignored the acts.

He was conveyed to Newgate gaol, where by the kindness of Lord Clare he was visited by two of his relatives, and where he died of his wound on the 4th of June 1798.

The town possesses few buildings of any note, but government house, the law-courts, the gaol, the lunatic asylum and the HongKong and Shanghai Bank are exceptions, as also is the cathedral of St Andrew.

A large municipal gaol (1834-1837), capable of receiving 500 inmates, with barracks for a regiment, is a striking object on the Prado.

Those, he said with much point, who have most of the spirit of prayer are all to be found in gaol; and those who have most zeal for the form of prayer are all to be found at the alehouse.

In 1730 William Morgan, an Irish student, visited the gaol and reported that there was a great opening for work among the prisoners.

From the convenient and accessible position of the town, the gaol and lunatic asylum serving for the three south-western counties of Wales - Cardigan, Pembroke and Carmarthen - have been fixed here.

Mold county gaol, bought in 1880 by Jesuits expelled from France, was by them named St Germanus's House.

He went with the first rush to Klondike in 1897 and tramped across the States and Canada, being in gaol more than once as a vagabond.

Hostile critics were not wanting; many voices were raised in protest against the ultra-humanitarianism which sought to make gaols too comfortable and tended to pamper criminals.

The labours of this society brought out into strong relief the naked deformity of the bulk of the British gaols.

The next day was a Sunday; and in the evening, whilst the British troops were parading for church, the native cavalry armed themselves, galloped to the gaol and released their comrades.

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,