gaoler

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
7
Words With Friends
9
Letters
6

Definition of gaoler

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. (Commonwealth)Dated spelling of jailer.
    “The Grange is not a prison, Ellen, and you are not my gaoler.”
    “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.”
    “A gaoler struck him, pushing him back in place in the hopeless, helpless line of prisoners.”

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Etymology

By surface analysis, gaol + -er.

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