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  • noun Plural form of jailer.

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Examples

  • Confusing matters worse for the jailers is her insistence she is Hindu not Muslim, which brings the issue of Jeremiah’s fallibility to the surface.

    The Viper Within-Sam Mills « The Merry Genre Go Round Reviews 2008

  • The jailers are a brigade of fighters whose commander is Hakim Belhaj, a former Guantanamo detainee whose military prowess helped free Tripoli.

    Roles Reversed at Libyan Jail Protest Margaret Coker 2011

  • In the floor of the Tullianum is a well, which, according to the legend, miraculously came into existence while St. Peter was imprisoned here, enabling the Apostle to baptize his jailers, Sts. Processus and Martinianus.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy 1840-1916 1913

  • Prosecutors were prepared to call jailers to testify that the defendant seemed fine.

    unknown title 2009

  • Prosecutors were prepared to call jailers to testify that the defendant seemed fine.

    unknown title 2009

  • A few months ago, we published an editorial that used the word "jailers" to describe those who work in the Olmsted County detention center.

    Postbulletin.com Local News 2009

  • Getting caught, it seems, did not diminish his penchant for greasing palms: It is by paying off his jailers that he was able to buzz about Asia.

    Indonesian Superfly 2011

  • The number of employees who would be targets of such a commission is relatively small, and many within the agency were never comfortable with C.I.A. officers acting as jailers.

    Your Right Hand Thief 2009

  • And also, will we ever know how many died while in the hands of of our jailers?

    Straight from the top (Jack Bog's Blog) 2009

  • Boethius' "Consolation of Philosophy," often called the first piece of prison literature, revealed an author who did not merely want to escape his jailers but to be lifted into realms of transcendent thought.

    Five Best: Still Free to Think: Prison Writing Martin E. Marty 2011

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