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GANTELOPE

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(pronounced "gauntlett") A military punishment, in which the criminal running between the ranks receives a lash from each man. Enc. Lond. This was called "running the gauntlett." … [Read more...]

GARDEIN

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A keeper; a guardian. … [Read more...]

GAOL

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A prison for temporary confinement; a jail; a place for the confinement of offenders against the law. There is said to be a distinction between "gaol" and "prison;" the former being a place for temporary or provisional confinement, or for the punishment of the lighter offenses and misdemeanors, while the latter is a place for permanent or long-continued confinement, or for the … [Read more...]

GARDEN

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A piece of ground appropriated to raising plants and flowers. 2. A garden is a parcel of a house and passes with it. … [Read more...]

GAOL DELIVERY

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In criminal law. The delivery or clearing of a gaol of the prisoners confined therein, by trying them. In popular speech, the clearing of a gaol by the escape of the prisoners. General gaol delivery. In English law. At the assises (q. v.) the judges sit bv virtue of five several authorities, one of which is the commission of "general gaol delivery." This empowers them to try … [Read more...]

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