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• n  someone who guards prisoners

• Disembarking at Boston in 1656, Mary Fisher, "a religious maiden," and her companion Ann Austin, Quakers, were welcomed by hangman, by gaoler.
• The Virginia Gazette recently carried a notice of an arrest of a runaway slave signed by "Mary Lindsey, gaoler" of Henrico County.
• Said Napoleon of Sir Hudson: "The man is a coward of long experience and a gaoler from taste.

• prison guard
• jailer
• jailor
• screw
• turnkey