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What is a jailer?

What is a jailer? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. One who enforces confinement in a jail or prison.
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At the other end of the corridor the jailer sits, leaning his chair against the wall and watching a Scottish costume drama on a small, flickering television.
Turkey remained the world's leading jailer of journalists in 2013, with 40 known to have been in prison at the end of last year.
Part of the reason for this is that the therapeutic relationship is tainted by the assessor being also the person's jailer.
A jailer though who cuffs himself to his prisoner for thirty-six long years is himself no longer a free man.
Yoritomo enlivened his rustication by seducing the daughter of his jailer, Itō Sukechika.
Tina explains that turnkey archaically means jailer and holder of the keys.

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