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  • verb Present participle of gaol.

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Examples

  • Just as the gaoling of nationalist leaders like Mahatma Gandhi and Jomo Kenyatta invested them with a unique aura and helped galvanize resistance to the colonial power, so, we believe, the imprisonment of Nelson Mandela is a self-defeating course for the South African Government to take.

    OLIVER TAMBO AND THE STRUGGLE AGAINST APARTHEID 1980

  • Just as the gaoling of nationalist leaders like Mahatma Gandhi and Jomo Kenyatta invested them with a unique aura and helped galvanize resistance to the colonial power, so, we believe, the imprisonment of Nelson Mandela is a self-defeating course for the South African Government to take.

    OLIVER TAMBO 1980

  • The number of the prison population, he considers, might be still further reduced if a system of probation was established, and he goes on to say: My experience convinces me that there is a great deal too much gaoling for minor offences.

    Criminology in the British Empire 1907

  • "If you are thinking of gaoling me," said White, "why, I think we shall make up a pretty jolly party."

    Jack O' Judgment Edgar Wallace 1903

  • Ephraim, it was remarked, was always particularly careful in searching Rogers when he came off shift, in the hope, as the men believed, of one day finding a secreted nugget, and getting even with his enemy by gaoling him for a few years.

    The Gold-Stealers A Story of Waddy Edward Dyson 1898

  • The gaoling thing is that I work adjacent to a LIDL UK GMBH, SUPERMARKET

    The Engineer - News 2010

  • The gaoling thing is that I work adjacent to a LIDL UK GMBH, SUPERMARKET

    The Engineer - News 2010

  • The gaoling thing is that I work adjacent to a LIDL UK GMBH, SUPERMARKET

    The Engineer - News 2010

  • Page 4: Rio Tinto has turned to former US secretary of state Henry Kissinger to rebuild its bridges with China as Canberra and Beijing traded barbs over the gaoling of four Rio executives, including Australian Stern Hu.

    WA Business News - Latest News 2010

  • The gaoling thing is that I work adjacent to a LIDL UK GMBH, SUPERMARKET

    The Engineer - News 2010

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