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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

JA'ILER, n. The keeper of a prison.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: someone who guards prisoners [syn: prison guard, jailer, jailor, gaoler, screw, turnkey]

Merriam Webster's

also jailor noun Date: 13th century 1. a keeper of a jail 2. one that restricts another's liberty as if by imprisonment

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. (also gaoler) a person in charge of a jail or of the prisoners in it.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Jailer Jail"er, n. [OE. jailer, gailer, OF. geolier, F. ge[^o]lier. See Jail.] The keeper of a jail or prison. [Written also jailor, gaoler.]

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(jailers) Note: in BRIT, also use 'gaoler' A jailer is a person who is in charge of a jail and the prisoners in it. (OLD-FASHIONED) = warder N-COUNT

Easton's Bible Dictionary

(of Philippi), Acts 16:23. The conversion of the Roman jailer, a man belonging to a class "insensible as a rule and hardened by habit, and also disposed to despise the Jews, who were the bearers of the message of the gospel," is one of those cases which illustrate its universality and power.

Moby Thesaurus

advance guard, armed guard, bank guard, bull, coast guard, commandant, cordon, cordon sanitaire, custodian, gaoler, garrison, goalie, goalkeeper, goaltender, governor, guard, guarder, guardian, guardsman, inlying picket, keeper, outguard, outpost, penologist, picket, principal keeper, prison guard, rear guard, screw, security guard, train guard, turnkey, van, vanguard, warden, warder