jailer

[ US /ˈdʒeɪɫɝ/ ]
[ UK /d‍ʒˈe‍ɪlɐ/ ]
NOUN
  1. someone who guards prisoners
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How To Use jailer In A Sentence

  • If Sidacai cared to lodge a formal complaint, the jailers would suffer punishment. probably he would not complain.
  • But the Lady Castlewood went back from him, putting back her hood, and leaning against the great stanchioned door which the gaoler had just closed upon them. The History of Henry Esmond
  • Tradition is a guide and not a jailer. W. Somerset Maugham 
  • 480 Then the gaolers built the cage481 over him and left him therein, lorn and lone, whereupon longing and consternation entered into him and the tongue of his case recited in extempore verse, The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
  • What I was principally leading to, was to tell you how ingenious I am in my contrivances and pretences to blind my gaoleress, and to take off the jealousy of her principals on my going down so often into the garden and poultry-yard. Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 2
  • The jailer was the gate, the prison cell, the executioner and sometimes, if you were lucky, your friend. Five days inside a Taliban jail
  • Between themselves they arrange that the wedding shall take place when next Pizarro makes his monthly visit to Seville to give an account of his stewardship, and the jailer admonishes the youthful pair to put money in their purses in a song of little distinction, but containing some delineative music in the orchestra suggesting the rolling and jingling of coins. A Book of Operas Their Histories, Their Plots, and Their Music
  • His confederates steal the horse in question from a jailer who is keeping it for evidence and substitute it with another animal painted to look identical.
  • It was officially said that he had intimidated his helot jailer into giving him the knife, and had so mangled himself.
  • Maddened by captivity, he became aware that his only escape lay in imitating his human jailers. Times, Sunday Times
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