gaols

noun

  1. 1

    A place or institution for the confinement of persons held in lawful custody or detention, especially for minor offenses or with reference to some future judicial proceeding.

  2. 2

    Confinement in a jail.

  3. 3

    The condition created by the requirement that a horse claimed in a claiming race not be run at another track for some period of time (usually 30 days).

  4. 4

    In dodgeball and related games, the area where players who have been struck by the ball are confined.

  5. 5

    (FreeBSD) A kind of sandbox for running a guest operating system instance.

verb

  1. 1

    To imprison.

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