JAILER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does jailer mean? 

• JAILER (noun)
  The noun JAILER has 1 sense:

1. someone who guards prisoners

  Familiarity information: JAILER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• JAILER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Someone who guards prisoners

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

gaoler; jailer; jailor; prison guard; screw; turnkey

Hypernyms ("jailer" is a kind of...):

keeper (someone in charge of other people)

law officer; lawman; peace officer (an officer of the law)

Derivation:

jail (lock up or confine, in or as in a jail)

 Context examples 

But the countryman seized his fiddle, and struck up a tune, and at the first note judge, clerks, and jailer were in motion; all began capering, and no one could hold the miser.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

If I could have seen my mother alone, I should have gone down on my knees to her and besought her forgiveness; but I saw no one, Miss Murdstone excepted, during the whole time—except at evening prayers in the parlour; to which I was escorted by Miss Murdstone after everybody else was placed; where I was stationed, a young outlaw, all alone by myself near the door; and whence I was solemnly conducted by my jailer, before any one arose from the devotional posture.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)