Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Jailer

Jailer , noun

[Old English jailer, gailer, Old French geolier, French geôlier. See Jail.]

The keeper of a jail or prison.

Text from the public-domain GNU Collaborative International Dictionary of English, derived from Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913). Definitions marked with were added by later GCIDE contributors and are not in the original 1913 edition.

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