gaoler
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]By surface analysis, gaol + -er.
Pronunciation
[edit]- Rhymes: -eɪlə(ɹ)
Noun
[edit]gaoler (plural gaolers)
- (Commonwealth, dated) Alternative spelling of jailer
- 1847 December, Ellis Bell [pseudonym; Emily Brontë], chapter XXIII, in Wuthering Heights: […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Thomas Cautley Newby, […], →OCLC:
- The Grange is not a prison, Ellen, and you are not my gaoler.
- 1890, William Booth, chapter 7, in In Darkest England and the Way Out[1]:
- One very important section of the denizens of Darkest England are the criminals and the semi-criminals. They are more or less predatory, and are at present shepherded by the police and punished by the gaoler.
- 1966, James Workman, The Mad Emperor, Melbourne, Sydney: Scripts, page 41:
- A gaoler struck him, pushing him back in place in the hopeless, helpless line of prisoners.