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gaolor

gaolor is the archaic spelling of jailer.

Meaning of jailer

Noun

jailer (plural jailers)

  1. 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.1775, Samuel Palmer, The Nonconformist's Memorial

Forms of gaolor

pluralgaolors

Words formed from gaolor

Questions about gaolor

What is gaolor the archaic spelling of?
Gaolor is the archaic spelling of jailer.

Words near gaolor in the dictionary

  1. gaolkeepers
  2. gaolless
  3. gaollike
  4. gaolmate
  5. gaolmates
  6. gaolor
  7. gaoloress
  8. gaoloresses
  9. gaolors
  10. gaols
  11. gaolward

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Adapted from Wiktionary: gaolor (page history and authors); jailer (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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