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noun a place of confinement, especially for prisoners

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  • The criminal was sentenced to ten years in gaol for his crimes.
  • They caught the thief and threw him in gaol for the night.
  • I heard he spent some time in the gaol for getting into a bar fight.
  • Her guilt felt like a heavy weight, as if she were imprisoned in a mental gaol.