Jailer

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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}.]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



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

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  36 Moby Thesaurus words for "jailer":
     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
  
  

From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:

  Jailer
     (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.