jail·er

also jail·or (jā′lər)

One whose responsibility is keeping a jail.

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jailer

(ˈdʒeɪlə) ,

jailor

gaoler

a person in charge of prisoners in a jail

Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014

jail•er

or jail•or

(ˈdʒeɪ lər)

n.

1. a person in charge of a jail.

2. a person who forcibly confines another.

[1250–1300; Middle English < Anglo-French]

ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:

Noun

jailer - someone who guards prisoners

gaoler, jailor, prison guard, screw, turnkey

keeper - someone in charge of other people; "am I my brother's keeper?"

law officer, lawman, peace officer - an officer of the law

jailer

gaoler

noun guard, keeper, warden, screw (slang), captor, warder, turnkey (archaic) The chief said someone slugged the jailer and opened the cell.

Collins Thesaurus of the English Language – Complete and Unabridged 2nd Edition. 2002 © HarperCollins Publishers 1995, 2002

jailer

also jailor
noun

A guard or keeper of a prison:

turnkey, warden.

British: warder.

Translations

žalářník

fangevogter

fangavörîur

žalárnik

jailer

[ˈdʒeɪləʳ] N → carcelero/a m/f

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

jailer

[ˈdʒeɪlə^r] n → geôlier/ière m/f

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

jailer

n → Gefängniswärter(in) m(f), → Gefängnisaufseher(in) m(f)

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

jailer

gaoler (Brit) [ˈdʒeɪləʳ] n → carceriere m

Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

jail,

gaol

(dʒeil) noun

(a) prison. You ought to be sent to jail for doing that.

verb

to put in prison. He was jailed for two years.

ˈjailer, ˈjailor, ˈgaoler noun

a person who has charge of a jail or of prisoners. The jailer was knocked unconscious in the riot.

ˈjailbird, ˈgaolbird noun

a person who is or has often been in jail.

to put a criminal in jail or gaol (not goal).

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Goodnight." And before Dantes could open his mouth -- before he had noticed where the jailer placed his bread or the water -- before he had glanced towards the corner where the straw was, the jailer disappeared, taking with him the lamp and closing the door, leaving stamped upon the prisoner's mind the dim reflection of the dripping walls of his dungeon.

With the first dawn of day the jailer returned, with orders to leave Dantes where he was.

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When the jailer received this new inmate, and saw from the warrant the name and station of his prisoner, he muttered with his turnkey smile, --

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"Yes, monsieur, he is indeed very wretched," said the jailer; "but it is his parents' fault.

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From the county jail where he had been confined to await his trial he had escaped by knocking down his jailer with an iron bar, robbing him of his keys and, opening the outer door, walking out into the night.

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A jailer stood reclining against the dock-rail, tapping his nose listlessly with a large key, except when he repressed an undue tendency to conversation among the idlers, by proclaiming silence; or looked sternly up to bid some woman 'Take that baby out,' when the gravity of justice was disturbed by feeble cries, half-smothered in the mother's shawl, from some meagre infant.

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Go to the prison—there are none in this pace to harm thee—give this note to the jailer, and, when thou seest Bumppo, say what thou wilt to the poor old man; give scope to the feeling of thy warm heart; but try to remember, Elizabeth, that the laws alone remove us from the condition of the savages; that he has been criminal, and that his judge was thy father.”

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"If the others go, I go, too," said Pinocchio to the Jailer.

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The Gallipoot made a signal and at once his attendants picked up General Guph and carried him away to a prison, where the jailer amused himself by sticking pins in the round fat body of the old Nome, to see him jump and hear him yell.

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He heard a door on the corridor close; the jailer had just left, not condescending to reply a single word.

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As night approached, it proving impossible to quell her insubordination by rebuke or threats of punishment, Master Brackett, the jailer, thought fit to introduce a physician.

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"And, this being the prison, and you the jailer, it is my duty to place the prisoner in your charge."

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