gaols
gaols is the plural of gaol.
gaols is the third-person singular simple present indicative of gaol.
Meaning of gaol
Noun
gaol (countable and uncountable, plural gaols)
- Dated spelling of jail.
- There's every Staffordshire crime-piece ever made in this cabinet, and that's unique. The Van Hoyer Museum in New York hasn't that very rare second version of Maria Marten's Red Barn over there, nor the little Frederick George Manning – he was the criminal Dickens saw hanged on the roof of the gaol...1963, Margery Allingham, “Miss Thyrza’s Chair”, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC, page 42
Questions about gaols
- What is gaols the plural of?
- Gaols is the plural of gaol.
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