(n.) A place of confinement, especially for minor offenses or provisional imprisonment; a jail.
Example Sentences:
(1) The American philosopher John Dewey once said, 'If you want to establish some conception of a society, go find out who is in gaol.'
(2) O’Shea’s gaoling prompted hundreds of thousands of unionists to walk off the job in a statewide campaign that essentially re-established the right to strike in Australia.
(3) A new prison was big news the week I was in charge and I spelled it gaol instead of jail.
(4) The trailer is book-ended by Tyson quoting Oscar Wilde's The Ballad Of Reading Gaol: Yet each man kills the thing he loves By each let this be heard, Some do it with a bitter look, Some with a flattering word, The coward does it with a kiss, The brave man with a sword!
(5) In the home of the nasty Sheriff of Nottingham – at the city's old courthouse and county gaol – character actors lead visitors through the grim dance from trial and sentencing to prison (or death) in a real court.
(6) Kilmainham Gaol Facebook Twitter Pinterest Photograph: Alamy The rebel leaders were taken here after the rising failed.
(7) Ancelotti, who has been linked with a move away from PSG in the summer, also led the club to the quarter-finals of the Champions League this season before they were knocked out by Barcelona on away gaols.
(8) At one moment, we hear him reciting Oscar Wilde's The Ballad of Reading Gaol, with its famous line: "Each man kills the thing he loves."
(9) Worse, Brandis’s Bill proposes to gag journalists and bloggers if they tell anyone, with a 10 year gaol term if they do.
(10) Only on the back of the tomb is there elegantly chiselled a poignant verse from 'The Ballad of Reading Gaol': And alien tears will fill for him Pity's long broken urn.
(11) In recent years, large numbers of South African children have been the target of state-sanctioned abuse, including imprisonment in adult gaols.
(12) In a letter to the then Northern Ireland secretary Paul Murphy, he also showed an in-depth knowledge of Irish gaols as he recommended other sites of interest in the field.
(13) The administration of New Zealand's first general anaesthetic took place at the Colonial Gaol, Wellington, on the morning of Monday, September 27th, 1847.
(14) After that he is thrice in and out of gaol for deliriously funny reasons.
(15) That the former English teacher should have liked the classic Oscar Wilde poem The Ballad of Reading Gaol was described by one article as "Chris Jefferies' favourite poem was about killing wife".
(16) Another cousin, in the Communist party, was also in gaol.
(17) The remainder (22%) were using illegal opiates either regularly or intermittently, or were in gaol.
(18) And he wrote later in his famous letter from Birmingham City gaol, in answer to eight clergymen - bishops, pastors, and rabbis - who disagreed with his tactics of direct action in the street: "History is the long and tragic story of the fact that privileged groups seldom give up their privileges voluntarily.
(19) The refs took a little look at the play, wondering if the stick of Pouliot was above the crossbar but the gaol stands.
(20) Today: Kilmainhaim Gaol is one of the most visited tourist attractions in Ireland.
Pot
Definition:
(n.) A metallic or earthen vessel, appropriated to any of a great variety of uses, as for boiling meat or vegetables, for holding liquids, for plants, etc.; as, a quart pot; a flower pot; a bean pot.
(n.) An earthen or pewter cup for liquors; a mug.
(n.) The quantity contained in a pot; a potful; as, a pot of ale.
(n.) A metal or earthenware extension of a flue above the top of a chimney; a chimney pot.
(n.) A crucible; as, a graphite pot; a melting pot.
(n.) A wicker vessel for catching fish, eels, etc.
(n.) A perforated cask for draining sugar.
(n.) A size of paper. See Pott.
(v. t.) To place or inclose in pots
(v. t.) To preserve seasoned in pots.
(v. t.) To set out or cover in pots; as, potted plants or bulbs.
(v. t.) To drain; as, to pot sugar, by taking it from the cooler, and placing it in hogsheads, etc., having perforated heads, through which the molasses drains off.
(v. t.) To pocket.
(v. i.) To tipple; to drink.
Example Sentences:
(1) We know that several hundred thousand investors are likely to want to access their pension pots in the first weeks and months after the start of the new tax year.
(2) Golding said the government would not soften its stance on drug trafficking and it intended to use a proportion of revenues from its licensing authority to support a public education campaign to discourage pot-smoking by young people and mitigate public health consequences.
(3) But it includes other delicious things, too: pot-roasted squab, stewed rabbit, braised oxtail.
(4) Ron Hogg, the PCC for Durham says that dwindling resources and a reluctance to throw people in jail over a plant (I paraphrase slightly) has led him to instruct his officers to leave pot smokers alone.
(5) She ushers us into the kitchen, where a large metal pot simmering on the hotplate emits a spicy aroma.
(6) It somewhat condescendingly divides the population into 15 groups – among them, Terraced Melting Pot (“Lower-income workers, mostly young, living in tightly packed inner-urban terraces”), and Suburban Mind-sets (“Maturing families on mid-range incomes living a moderate lifestyle in suburban semis”).
(7) I drive past buildings that I know, or assume, to house bedsits, their stucco peeling like eczema, their window frames rattling like old bones, and I cannot help myself from picturing the scene within: a dubious pot on an equally dubious single ring, the female in charge of it half-heartedly stirring its contents at the same time as she files her nails, reads an old Vogue, or chats to some distant parent on the telephone.
(8) Others will point out that this is a case of pot calling kettle black as Wolff is himself a famous peddler of tittle-tattle – the aggregator website that he cofounded, Newser, even has a section called "Gossip".
(9) [IAAF officials] are quite happy to sit in Monaco on a huge pot of money but when it comes to investing in the sport it’s not happening.
(10) Even if it were true that the rich are hard working, this wouldn't distinguish them from most people who lack the proverbial pot to micturate in.
(11) Extensive research among the Afghan National Army – 68 focus groups – and US military personnel alike concluded: "One group sees the other as a bunch of violent, reckless, intrusive, arrogant, self-serving profane, infidel bullies hiding behind high technology; and the other group [the US soldiers] generally views the former as a bunch of cowardly, incompetent, obtuse, thieving, complacent, lazy, pot-smoking, treacherous, and murderous radicals.
(12) But the crisis has left divisions more deeply entrenched than ever between the rich, Dutch-speaking north and poorer, French-speaking south, with melting pot Brussels marooned in the middle.
(13) If you do find they are all legs and nothing else, when you pot them on, drop them.
(14) Known as the melting pot of the south, Marseille is home to a large proportion – possibly up to a fifth – of France's total Roma population, itself estimated at between 15,000 and 20,000.
(15) If you are on holiday in the local area please come along and have a look, buy a garden bench or a potted plant.
(16) Everything was quiet, and there was the jacket on the stand – finished, perfect.” As the business grew, McQueen moved to Amwell Street where the studio was “like a magic porridge pot of creativity”, said Witton-Wallace.
(17) In screening exercises the Pot IgM failed to bind a wide variety of peptides.
(18) In the song Christmas and Owen argue that if women were a Pot Noodle it would be "farewell to nagging and random tantrums".
(19) Potted profile Born: 19 June 1945 Age: 66 Career: Campaigner for democracy and human rights High point: Release from house arrest in November 2010 and successive subsequent releases of Burmese political prisoners Low point: Separation from and eventual death of her husband from cancer in 1999 What she says: "It is not power that corrupts but fear.
(20) In this report, a new HLA-B locus antigen is described (tentatively called POT).