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单词 jailer
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jailerjailorgaolern.

Brit. /ˈdʒeɪlə/, U.S. /ˈdʒeɪlər/
Forms: α. Middle English gayholer, Middle English–1500s gailer, Middle English–1600s gayler, Middle English gaylere, 1500s gaylour, gaylor, 1500s–1600s gailor, 1600s goaler, 1600s– gaoler. β. Middle English iaioler, iaoler(e, iailere, iaylar, Middle English iaylere, Middle English–1500s iayler, Middle English–1600s iailer, (Middle English iaylarde, 1500s ioyler), 1500s–1600s iaylour, iailour, 1600s–1700s jaylor, jaylour, 1600s– jailer, jailor. γ. Middle English geil-, geyl-, geayl-, geyel-, 1600s gealer.
Etymology: Two types corresponding to gaol , jail : 1) gayholer , gayler , gailer , etc., < Old Northern French gayolierre , gaiolere , accusative gaioleor , < gaiole ; 2) jaioler , jaoler(e , jailer(e , etc., < Old French jaioleur , jeolier (French geôlier ), < jaiole , jeole , geole : see jail n. and -er suffix2.
a. One who has charge of a jail or of the prisoners in it; a jail-keeper.
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society > authority > punishment > imprisonment > prisoner > [noun] > jailer
jailerc1290
prisonera1325
officer?1387
claviculer1447
javeler?c1450
key turner1606
baston1607
twistkey1617
prison keeper1623
detainer1647
prison officer1649
turnkey1655
imprisoner1656
phylacist1656
cipier1671
wardsman1683
goodman1698
prison guard1722
screw1812
dungeoner1817
dubsman1839
cell-keeper1841
prison warder1854
warder1855
dubs1882
twirl1891
hack1914
correction officer1940
α.
c1290 S. Eng. Leg. I. 98/204 He let nime alle þe gayholers: and tormenti heom ful sore.
c1320 Sir Beues 1652 A wente quik out of prisoun Be þe rop þe gailer com adoun.
1465 in Manners & Househ. Expenses Eng. (1841) 179 The gaylere that was att Colchester.
1530–1 Act 22 Hen. VIII c. 12 The sayde Gaylour or Keper of pryson.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Cymbeline (1623) v. v. 290 Thou shalt be then freer then a Gaoler.
1765 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. I. ix. 346 (margin) Goalers are also the servants of the sheriff.
1859 C. Dickens Tale of Two Cities ii. ii. 39 Two gaolers..went out, and the prisoner was brought in.
β. c1380 Sir Ferumbras (1879) l. 1183 Þe Amyral..clepede ys iayler þer a stod.a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 17319 Þair Iailers [Gött. iaioleris] to þaim þai cald.a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 4434 Son was ioseph halden dere wit þe maister jailere [Fairf. iailer, Gött. iaolere, Trin. Cambr. Iailere].c1420 Chron. Vilod. st. 731 Bot þe Iaylardes folowedon þis theff full fast.1526 Bible (Tyndale) Acts xvi. 23 They cast them into preson, commaundynge the ioyler [1534 iayler; 1611 Iaylour] to kepe them surely.a1625 J. Boys Wks. (1630) 262 As a cunning Iailour..he will be sure to keepe the prison doore fast.1705 G. Stanhope Paraphr. III. 416 This was the Faith of St. Paul's Jaylor and his Family.1841 C. Dickens Barnaby Rudge lxxi. 351 Their jailers had been regular in bringing food and candles.γ. c1480 (a1400) St. Adrian 159 in W. M. Metcalfe Legends Saints Sc. Dial. (1896) II. 276 With geileris þane cane he trete.1485 W. Caxton tr. Thystorye & Lyf Charles the Grete sig. eiij/1 Brutamont the geayler made Olyuer & his felawes to auale doun in to a pryson.1688 [implied in: W. Fleming in 12th Rep. Royal Comm. Hist. MSS (1890) App. vii. 224 Hee will get noe body to undertake the geale nor under gealership. (at jailership n.)].
b. transferred and figurative.
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?1518 A. Barclay Fyfte Eglog sig. Ciiij Jaylers of Justyce.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Coriolanus (1623) v. i. 65 His Iniury The Gaoler to his pitty. View more context for this quotation
1642 T. Fuller Holy State iv. xxi. 352 A slavish fear, the jaylour of the soul.
1821 Examiner 1 Apr. 200/1 That we should act as the perpetual gaolers of Napoleon was most horrible and disgraceful.
1866 J. Conington tr. Virgil Æneid i. 7 The jailor-monarch of the wind.
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