Definitions for jailer

jailer jail·er

Spelling: [jey-ler]
IPA: /ˈdʒeɪ lər/

Jailer is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 89 anagrams from letters in jailer (aeijlr).

Definitions for jailer

noun

  1. a person who is in charge of a jail or section of a jail.
  2. a person who forcibly confines another.

Origin of jailer

1250-1300; Middle English gaioler, jaioler, jailer Old French jaiolier. See jail, -er2

Examples for jailer

He declined to give his name and insisted his jailer was treating him like his mother would.

What had become of the jailer and the guards, Theseus never knew.

“The jailer had a high-school-age daughter and was uncertain how to help her get in college,” writes Ferris.

Does the low profile assumed by the former head of Yukos mean that he entered into a secret agreement with his jailer?

My jailer said I had to convert to Islam if I hoped to survive.

And then the brown hand of her jailer closed over her mouth.

His right hand continued to hang above the gun he had taken from the jailer.

It was akin to a jailer wielding a set of keys before locking you in your cell.

The jailer pointed with his bunch of keys to a cell before him.

To know and to feel that they regard themselves as your prisoners, and you as their jailer?

Word Value for jailer
Scrable

13

Words with friends

16

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