Definitions for gaol

gaol gaol

Spelling: [jeyl]
IPA: /dʒeɪl/

Gaol is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 5 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 7 points.

You can make 33 anagrams from letters in gaol (aglo).

Definitions for gaol

noun

  1. a prison, especially one for the detention of persons awaiting trial or convicted of minor offenses.

verb (used with object)

  1. to take into or hold in lawful custody; imprison.

noun, verb (used with object)

  1. jail.

Origin of gaol

1225-75; Middle English gaiole, jaiole, jaile Old North French gaiole, Old French jaiole cage Vulgar Latin *gaviola, variant of *caveola, diminutive of Latin cavea cage

Examples for gaol

We will make out a case, and send the police to drag you off to gaol!

Isn't there two of us here, whose brothers is now in gaol along of him?

He is finished, done for—may thank his lucky stars he's not in gaol.

They were apprehended, thrown into gaol, and brought to formal trial.

When we reached Montreal we were confined in a gaol where we remained three weeks.

Is it no punishment, sir, for an innocent man to lie several months in gaol?

After such an answer, Wingate could only send him to gaol: he could not help himself.

And were you not, for your audacity, left to brood ten days and nights in gaol?

At York, we were put in the gaol, where we were kept three weeks.

The freelancer has since served a gaol term, and so too has the paper's royal correspondent.

Word Value for gaol
Scrable

5

Words with friends

7

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