Definitions
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- noun One who keeps a
jail ; ajailer .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Now they had reason to believe he was no friend to the royals at all, but rather their jailkeeper.
Pathfinder Orson Scott Card 2010
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Stuff a lusty badass into an apron in a marriage prison with her husband as jailkeeper, and you are going to have to resort to Prozac or worse to keep her in line.
Mama Gena’s Marriage Manual Regena Thomashauer 2004
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My Christian relatives and ministers I know always quote Scripture ... “Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and Thou shalt be saved. †This is what the Apostle Paul said to the frightened jailkeeper when an earthquake hit and all the doors of the jail flew open.
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My Christian relatives and ministers I know always quote Scripture ... “Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and Thou shalt be saved. †This is what the Apostle Paul said to the frightened jailkeeper when an earthquake hit and all the doors of the jail flew open.
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At the age of eighteen, having already worked as a tax collector, a printer’s devil, and a jailkeeper, he enlisted in the Mexican Revolution.
The Prize Daniel Yergin 2008
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At the age of eighteen, having already worked as a tax collector, a printer’s devil, and a jailkeeper, he enlisted in the Mexican Revolution.
The Prize Daniel Yergin 2008
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