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"Prison guard"2 answers
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Filled answer is this word (JAILER).
Definitions
someone who guards prisoners
Word origin
Inherited from Middle English gayoler, gayler, jayler, from Old French jaiolier, gaiolier, from jaiole. By surface analysis, jail + -er.
Used in a sentence
“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.”
“The jailer was also roused by the earthquake and came to the outer door; he was perhaps a soldier, or at least had something of Roman discipline, giving him presence of mind.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
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01“Prison guard”6 letters
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