Definition of Gaoler

1. Noun. Someone who guards prisoners.

Exact synonyms: Jailer, Jailor, Prison Guard, Screw, Turnkey
Generic synonyms: Keeper, Law Officer, Lawman, Peace Officer
Derivative terms: Gaol, Jail, Jail

Definition of Gaoler

1. n. The keeper of a jail. See Jailer.

Definition of Gaoler

1. Noun. (British) (obsolete spelling of jailer) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Gaoler

1. jailer [n -S] - See also: jailer

Lexicographical Neighbors of Gaoler

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ganzfeld
ganzfeld effect
ganzfeld experiment
ganzfeld experiments
gaohu
gaohus
gaol
gaol-bird
gaol-birds
gaolbird
gaolbirds
gaolbreak
gaolbreaks
gaoled
gaoler (current term)
gaoleress
gaoleresses
gaolers
gaolhouse
gaoliang
gaoling
gaolkeeper
gaolkeepers
gaols
gaotaiite
gap-43 protein
gap-toothed
gap-year

Literary usage of Gaoler

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Justice of the Peace and Parish Officer: Continued to the Present Time by Richard Burn (1797)
"gaoler Jball receive criminals. ... liquors into fuch gaol, the gaoler or his ... on pain of the gaoler forfeiting 40$. to be levied by warrant of onC ..."

2. The Statutes at Large from the Magna Charta, to the End of the Eleventh by Great Britain (1797)
"... of the then keeper or gao!;r, or deputy keeper or gaoler, of the faid ... wr.o ing commit- was or were keeper or gaoler, or deputed keeper or gaoler, ..."

3. A General Abridgment of Law and Equity: Alphabetically Digested Under Proper by Charles Viner (1793)
"Holt Ch. J. faid, that the gaoler is not bound to find his ... benefit not to be jni. upon it, for the gaoler muft nuke uut lus charge, and not put the ..."

4. The Law of the Office and Duties of the Sheriff: With the Writs and Forms by Cameron Churchill (1882)
"... too, the gaoler was a servant of the sheriff, servant of and was appointed by the sheriff, who had ex officio the sheriff. custody of the gaol, ..."

5. Historia Placitorum Coronae: The History of the Pleas of the Crown by Matthew Hale, Sollom Emlyn (1847)
"(A) If a gaoler voluntarily licence a felon to wander out of the bounds of the prison and to return again, if the prisoner returns again to the gaol before ..."

6. The Jurist by Great Britain Courts (1866)
"The gaoler shall reside in the prison. He shall not be an undersheriff or ... The gaoler shall strictly conform to the law relating to prisons and to the ..."

7. The Justice of the Peace and Parish Officer: Continued to the Present Time by Richard Burn (1797)
"gaoler Jball receive criminals. ... liquors into fuch gaol, the gaoler or his ... on pain of the gaoler forfeiting 40$. to be levied by warrant of onC ..."

8. The Statutes at Large from the Magna Charta, to the End of the Eleventh by Great Britain (1797)
"... of the then keeper or gao!;r, or deputy keeper or gaoler, of the faid ... wr.o ing commit- was or were keeper or gaoler, or deputed keeper or gaoler, ..."

9. A General Abridgment of Law and Equity: Alphabetically Digested Under Proper by Charles Viner (1793)
"Holt Ch. J. faid, that the gaoler is not bound to find his ... benefit not to be jni. upon it, for the gaoler muft nuke uut lus charge, and not put the ..."

10. The Law of the Office and Duties of the Sheriff: With the Writs and Forms by Cameron Churchill (1882)
"... too, the gaoler was a servant of the sheriff, servant of and was appointed by the sheriff, who had ex officio the sheriff. custody of the gaol, ..."

11. Historia Placitorum Coronae: The History of the Pleas of the Crown by Matthew Hale, Sollom Emlyn (1847)
"(A) If a gaoler voluntarily licence a felon to wander out of the bounds of the prison and to return again, if the prisoner returns again to the gaol before ..."

12. The Jurist by Great Britain Courts (1866)
"The gaoler shall reside in the prison. He shall not be an undersheriff or ... The gaoler shall strictly conform to the law relating to prisons and to the ..."

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