goale

English

Noun

goale (plural goales)

1. Obsolete spelling of goal.
   • 1622, John Downame, “Of ſuch Reaſons as may mooue vs to abhor carnall ſecuritie, and to vſe all meanes either to preuent it, or to be freed from it” (chapter VIII), in A Guide to Godlynesse: or, A Treatise of A Christian Life, page 52:

     And therefore as Runners for a prize make moſt ſpeed when they come neereſt vnto the Goale […]

   • 1916, Cecil Headlam, editor, Calendar of State Papers. Colonial Series. America and the West Indies. 1706-1708 June, page 159:

     Capt. Nelson for want thereof has been confin’d in the common goale of St. Georges above 2 years upon 2 attachments for costs in a decree grounded upon a double verdict of common law and referred to the opinion of the Lord Chief Justice of England, which was never obtain’d nor the first determin’d.