Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A female jailer.
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- noun A female
jailer .
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Examples
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As I got near to the avenue gate, instead of the school on my left there was a prison; and at the door a little thick-set jailer, three feet high and much deformed, and a little deformed jaileress no bigger than himself, were cunningly watching me out of the corners of their eyes, and toothlessly smiling.
Peter Ibbetson George Du Maurier 1865
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