Definition of "jailer" []

• One whose responsibility is keeping a jail. (noun)

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• "Thirty minutes later, after McCloud had left the jail — and had time to think of what other charges he could come up with — he called the jailer and added another charge against Conover; pointing a laser at an officer."
• "So I called the jailer, who seemed to be a kind man, and paid the dollar."
• "They then separated; and as Folliard was passing through the hatch, he called the jailer into his own office, and strove to prevail upon him, not ineffectually, to smuggle in some wine and other comforts to the baronet."