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Someone whose job is to guard a jail and the people kept there. In older stories and in British-flavoured writing you may see — same job, older spelling, from the same French root. In modern official talk you are more likely to hear prison officer or prison guard; jailer sounds a bit like a storybook, a film, or an older time. Though actually, the job is not only “turning keys”: a jailer is in charge of watching prisoners, so the word can carry a hard, watching feel. Surface-wise it is simply the person of the jail.
獄卒；監獄管理員
組成來自中古英語 gayoler / jayler，再從古法語 jaiolier，來自 jaiole（監獄）。現在看起來就是 jail + -er（做這件事的人）。
同家族的字
- jailthe place this person guards
原始詞典資料1 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
jailernoun/ˈd͡ʒeɪlə(ɹ)/
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One who enforces confinement in a jail or prison.
- Sometimes some of the ejected ministers preached to them privately, and now and then the jailer allowed Mr. H. to go out in the night to preach to them, and administer the Lord's Supper.
- But the next morning came, and my coffee was brought by her mother; the next, and the next, by the under jailers; and Angiola continued grievously ill.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。