单词 | jailer |
释义 | jailerjailorgaolern. a. One who has charge of a jail or of the prisoners in it; a jail-keeper. ΘΠ 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. 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.)].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. b. transferred and figurative. Π ?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. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < n.c1290 |
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