Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who keeps a jail; a jailer.
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Examples
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The writ was specially directed to the sheriff at Toronto, the sheriff at Brantford and the jail-keeper at Brantford.
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The late jail-keeper rode to a little opening in the woods, where Deck had halted, and received his orders.
A Lieutenant at Eighteen Oliver Optic 1859
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He was ordered by Lumpkin to put his hands behind him; this done, the jail-keeper proceeded to fasten them together in that position with a pair of iron handcuffs.
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The jail-keeper who lived second door from me, said he knew nor heard nothing against me; and he was no friend of mine.
Life of William Grimes, the Runaway Slave, Brought Down to the Present Time 1855
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The treason of the jail-keeper explains this -- itself accounted for by
The Death Shot A Story Retold Mayne Reid 1850
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She lived at Milton, was white, and on August 11 was still in prison, but was asking the jail-keeper to provide a master to carry her
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I was pleasantly surprised with Merkel's "thanks" to the former Soviet jail-keeper of millions, Mikhail Gorbachev, though, when she said:
race42008.com 2009
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His earliest memory, his bête noire, his Auntie, his jail-keeper, his sage friend — his mother, the others had said, but there’d been no proof of that, and she’d never answered the question when he’d asked her.
Son of a Witch Maguire, Gregory 2005
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