Gaolful

Quick meaning: Gaolful is a noun meaning (Commonwealth) Dated spelling of jailful.

Meaning

(Commonwealth) Dated spelling of jailful.

Example Sentences

Besides, when Dr. Martineau compares Christ’s substitution to the substitution of a noble citizen in the room of gaolfuls of felons, he excites a prejudice against the Atonement by a false analogy.

It is impossible to picture civilised, stable, progressive government in the country, side by side with military occupation, gaolfuls of prisoners, periodical destruction of transport, and the ever present fear of the assassin.

‘We like the longer-servers, with the one offence behind them—that is,’ she said to me, ‘your poisoners, your vitriol-throwers, your child-murderers, that the magistrates have turned kind on and kept from the rope. Had we a gaolful of such women, we might send our matrons home and let the convicts lock themselves up.[…]’

Word Forms

• gaolfuls

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include gaolbird, harbourful, gaol-bird, choky, hoosgow, jailfodder.

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