Gaol (?), 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.]
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.
© Webster 1913.