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jailer, jailor, gaoler|ˈdʒeɪlə(r)|
Forms: α. 3 gayholer, 4–6 gailer, 4–7 gayler, 5 gaylere, 6 gaylour, -or, 6–7 gailor, 7 goaler, 7– gaoler. β. 4 iaioler, iaoler(e, iailere, iaylar, 4–5 iaylere, 4–6 iayler, 4–7 iailer, (5 iaylarde, 6 ioyler), 6–7 iayl-, iailour, 7–8 jaylor, -our, 7– jailer, jailor. γ. 5 geil-, geyl-, geayl-, geyel-, 7 gealer.
[Two types corresp. to gaol, jail: 1) gayholer, gayler, gailer, etc., a. ONF. gayolierre, gaiolere, accus. gaioleor, f. gaiole; 2) jaioler, jaoler(e, jailer(e, etc., a. OF. jaioleur, jeolier (F. geôlier), f. jaiole, jeole, geole: see jail n. and -er2 2.]
One who has charge of a jail or of the prisoners in it; a jail-keeper.
αc1290S. Eng. Leg. I. 98/204 He let nime alle þe gayholers: and tormenti heom ful sore. c1320Sir Beues 1652 A wente quik out of prisoun Be þe rop þe gailer com adoun. 1465Mann. & Househ. Exp. (Roxb.) 179 The gaylere that was att Colchester. 1530–1Act 22 Hen. VIII, c. 12 The sayde Gaylour or Keper of pryson. 1611Shakes. Cymb. v. iv. 204 Thou shalt be then freer than a Gaoler. 1765Blackstone Comm. I. ix. 346 margin, Goalers are also the servants of the sheriff. 1859Dickens T. Two Cities ii. ii, Two gaolers..went out, and the prisoner was brought in.
βa1300Cursor M. 4434 (Cott.) Son was ioseph halden dere wit þe maister iailere [Gött. iaolere]. Ibid. 17319 (Cott.) Þair Iailers [Gött. iaioleris] to þaim þai cald. c1380Sir Ferumb. 1183 Þe Amyral..clepede ys iayler þer a stod. c1420Chron. Vilod. st. 731 Bot þe Iaylardes folowedon þis theff full fast. 1526Tindale Acts xvi. 23 They cast them into preson, commaundynge the ioyler [1534 iayler; 1611 Iaylour] to kepe them surely. a1625Boys Wks. (1630) 262 As a cunning Iailour..he will be sure to keepe the prison doore fast. 1705Stanhope Paraphr. III. 416 This was the Faith of St. Paul's Jaylor and his Family. 1840Dickens Barn. Rudge lxxi, Their jailers had been regular in bringing food and candles.
γc1375Sc. Leg. Saints, Adrian 159 With geileris þane cane he trete. 1485Caxton Chas. Gt. 89 Brutamont the geayler made Olyuer & his felawes to auale doun in to a pryson. [1688Gealer: see jail n. 1 γ.]
b. transf. and fig.
1514Barclay Cyt. & Uplondyshm. (Percy Soc.) 33 Jaylers of justyce. 1607Shakes. Cor. v. i. 65 His Iniury The Gaoler to his pitty. 1642Fuller Holy & Prof. St. iv. xxi. 352 A slavish fear, the jaylour of the soul. 1821Examiner 1 Apr. 200/1 That we should act as the perpetual gaolers of Napoleon was most horrible and disgraceful. 1864Conington æneid (1866) 7 The jailor-monarch of the wind. |
单词 jailery 释义 jailery nonce-wd.[f. jail n. + -ery.]Confinement, imprisonment.1825Hone ......