Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun One whose responsibility is keeping a jail.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The keeper of a jail or prison.
- noun In coal-mining, a small tub or box in which water is carried in a mine.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The keeper of a jail or prison.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun One who
enforces confinement in ajail orprison .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun someone who guards prisoners
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Examples
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Thirty minutes later, after McCloud had left the jail — and had time to think of what other charges he could come up with — he called the jailer and added another charge against Conover; pointing a laser at an officer.
No, seriously, I could swear the water in this pot is getting a little hotter… (#5) 2008
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Thirty minutes later, after McCloud had left the jail — and had time to think of what other charges he could come up with — he called the jailer and added another charge against Conover; pointing a laser at an officer.
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So I called the jailer, who seemed to be a kind man, and paid the dollar.
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So I called the jailer, who seemed to be a kind man, and paid the dollar.
The Use and Need of the Life of Carry A. Nation Carry Amelia Nation 1878
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They then separated; and as Folliard was passing through the hatch, he called the jailer into his own office, and strove to prevail upon him, not ineffectually, to smuggle in some wine and other comforts to the baronet.
Willy Reilly The Works of William Carleton, Volume One William Carleton 1831
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Another supporter under the name jailer wrote: "Good to see that Walter is not taking any of their nonsense."
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"If President Obama has taken the CIA out of the prison business, he should also take the CIA out of the short-term jailer business as well."
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Jack taking over as the "jailer" --- the show ends with this.... just a theory
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The jailer was the gate, the prison cell, the executioner and sometimes, if you were lucky, your friend.
Five days inside a Taliban jail Ghaith Abdul-Ahad 2010
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Arian bishop Patrophilus, whom Eusebius calls his jailer, (Baronius,
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 5: Diocese-Fathers of Mercy 1840-1916 1913
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