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Meanings of gaoler in English

Catalan
carcerari
Spanish
guardia de prisión
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A person who guards the prisoners in a jail.

carcerari
Usage of gaoler in English
1
The gaoler has not been long in getting Annette and Nicholas ready.
Our World; Or, the Slaveholder's Daughter
2
Outside the door his gaoler motioned to him to mount the stairs.
The Secret Adversary
3
The temporal king, judge, or gaoler can work but on the body.
Barchester Towers
4
They were gone, the gaoler closing and locking the door behind them.
To Have and to Hold
5
The entrance gaoler gave him the forms, and he disappeared with them.
The Shrieking Pit
6
The gaoler was at once held responsible, and his house was mobbed.
Letters and Journals of James, Eighth Earl of Elgin
7
But wherever we went, she hovered at my side like a gaoler.
The Asylum
8
Now the gaoler hauled up the bar and hauled open the door.
For Love Of Evil
9
Then I asked him whether he looked on me as a gaoler.
The Rescue: A Romance of the Shallows
10
But England is a pedagogue as well as a gaoler to us.
Thomas Davis, Selections from his Prose and Poetry
11
Another letter, given to the gaoler by Bonnœil, answered these questions affirmatively.
The House of the Combrays
12
Apparently he was an accommodating gaoler, for he did as I wished.
Salute to Adventurers
13
The rough gaoler's good-humoured chatter was particularly distasteful to the poor man.
I.N.R.I.: A prisoner's Story of the Cross
14
Presently Stradella was led in by the gaoler and his assistant.
Stradella
15
The judge's stiff figure and serious face appeared in company with the gaoler.
I.N.R.I.: A prisoner's Story of the Cross
16
She entered the gaol-porch, lifted the knocker, and asked the gaoler for admission.
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carcerari
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