Gaol: alternatives and connections

To restrain within limits; to restrict; to limit; to bound; to shut up; to inclose; to keep close.

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To keep back or from; to withhold.

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A place where persons under arrest are temporarily locked up; a watchhouse.

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A house where any manufacture is carried on; a workshop.

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The state of being posited, or placed; the manner in which anything is placed; attitude; condition; as, a firm, an inclined, or an upright position.

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The state of being posited, or placed; the manner in which anything is placed; attitude; condition; as, a firm, an inclined, or an upright position.

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To cause to give out a slight, sharp, tinkling, sound, as by striking metallic or other sonorous bodies together.

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To wall around; to surround with walls.

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To put in prison or jail; To arrest and detain in custody; to confine.

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To imprison; to confine in a jail or prison.

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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 ju…

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A vessel, usually of coarse earthenware, with a swelling belly and narrow mouth, and having a handle on one side.

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Coming tardily after or behind; slow; tardy.

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See Poky.

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Confined; cramped.

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To recommit; to send back.

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