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Meanings of jailor in English
Catalan
carcerari Spanish
guardia de prisión 
A person who guards the prisoners in a jail.
Synonyms
Examples for "screw"
Examples for "screw"
1
Austria, also, claims the honour of the invention of the screw steamer.
2
The faint crunching sound of the screw going into the wood ceased.
3
Nail or screw the buttons to the table, as shown in Fig.
4
The screw had two arms and was over nine feet in circumference.
5
Just a screw-up on my part. Neither starting quarterback returned to action.
1
I went to the prison; the jailer would not take me in.
2
At present, your jailer doesn't know that you are aware of him.
3
Our only hopes lay in the assistance the jailer might afford us.
4
He played cards half the night with the jailer and the sheriff.
5
My half hour has expired; the jailer comes to let me out.
1
The warder aroused the domestics in the tower, and the stranger entered.
2
The warder stepped out of the door and looked left and right.
3
He knocked at the doors of Mr. Mason and the chief warder.
4
A few more minutes and the warder brought the lad his supper.
5
Böhni trotted behind the warder as if going to his own execution.
1
The gaoler has not been long in getting Annette and Nicholas ready.
2
Outside the door his gaoler motioned to him to mount the stairs.
3
The temporal king, judge, or gaoler can work but on the body.
4
They were gone, the gaoler closing and locking the door behind them.
5
The entrance gaoler gave him the forms, and he disappeared with them.
1
Above the general din he heard the detestable voice of the turnkey.
2
The turnkey looked at Will Law with a hesitation in his attitude.
3
The turnkey burst into the room with hands uplifted and eyes bulging.
4
While they were still in discussion, a turnkey opened the door, saying:
5
The burly turnkey at the last door stood ready to meet her.
1
It depended what pay grade you were at as a correctional officer.
2
The correctional officer who's processing my information types with one finger.
3
His past as both a drug dealer and correctional officer.
4
With Obama are Bureau of Prisons Director Charles Samuels (R) and correctional officer Ronald Warwick....more
5
Grimes was "wearing his correctional officer uniform at the time of this stop," the complaint said.
1
The Dáil has strongly condemned the killing of prison warder David Black.
2
Right ahead, in the centre of the village square, stood a prison warder.
3
Life behind bars When Mandela arrived, a prison warder sneered: This is the Island.
4
In Act III the drunken prison warder Frosch, an actor, improvises contemporary satirical references.
5
She was looking for unruly strands of hair like a prison warder for escaped prisoners.
1
The corrections officer peeped in and continued walking without asking any questions.
2
According to the snitch, a crooked corrections officer is a key drugs supplier.
3
Andy Barnes is a senior corrections officer working at the unit.
4
A corrections officer fired six rounds at him as he scaled the fence.
5
Jasper rose and walked down the hallway with the corrections officer.
1
He was on probation for throwing a food tray at a detention officer inside a Phoenix jail last year.
2
He sold a business and changed careers to join the department, and was promoted from a detention officer in 2015.
3
At approximately 07.37hrs on Tuesday 24 June a designated detention officer checked on the man and found him unresponsive.
4
They say detention officer Sergeant Ricky Pickens-Wilson and detention officer-Sergeant John Figaroa tampered with government documents, signing off and claiming they had inspected the cell.
5
The man was found "unresponsive" when a detention officer checked on him at Uxbridge police station, London, on Tuesday morning, according to a police statement.
1
Suppose some incompetent rifleman had meant to hit the jail guard?
2
Two people were wounded, including a jail guard.
3
Two people were hurt, including a jail guard.
4
Defining a jail guard as a lawman took liberties with accuracy, but her words had found their target.
5
The reporters crowded toward the entrance and were kept back by a jail guard, who corralled them with outstretched arms.
1
He was a maximum security prison officer in Melbourne for seven years.
2
The Limerick prison officer experienced one of her worst-ever competitive rounds yesterday.
3
He was the first prison officer to be murdered in nearly 20 years.
4
Four gardaí, a prison officer and a prisoner were slightly injured.
5
The jail discovered its first case in a prison officer on Feb. 13.
1
Her brother, a prison guard in Kentucky, had sent it to her.
2
My mother appeared over me like a prison guard with orange juice.
3
Former American Samoa prison guard Okesene Alo has been jailed for 27 years.
4
Well, Calvin, that young prison guard's grandfather hasn't been born yet.
5
The arrival of a prison guard gave Ganimard an opportunity to recover himself.
Usage of jailor in English
1
Jasper was interrupted in his reverie by the entrance of the jailor.
2
It was brought in by negroes, the jailor standing at the door.
3
The jailor told him the copy of the writ should be forthcoming.
4
The jailor himself was a kind man, and rather of Union sentiments.
5
Sir Henry's teeth clicked angrily as the door closed behind the jailor.
6
He wondered whether he was hardy enough to be an efficient jailor.
7
Hudson Lowe was only a jailor, Hudson Lowe was only an executioner.
8
But Mombi was still my grandfather's jailor, and afterward my father's jailor.
9
Tell the general that I shall hold his jailor responsible for my clothes.
10
He saved the thief on the cross, He saved the jailor at Philippi.
11
The lower story was occupied by the jailor and his family.
12
Jasper could eat but little of the meagre dinner the jailor brought him.
13
Almost instantly it swung open and the jailor with his lantern stood without.
14
The jailor, Swims, was a character, and merits a particular description.
15
Then Duke Otho, falling into the trap, appointed him jailor of Sir Thierry.
16
When the jailor cried out, 'Sirs, what must I do to be saved?'
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