gaolers's Usage Examples:

At midnight on the 5th of July 1764, Mirovich won over some of the garrison, arrested the commandant, Berednikov, and demanded the delivery of Ivan, who there and then was murdered by his gaolers in obedience to the secret instructions already in their possession.

All alike were subject to the rapacity of their gaolers and the extortions of their fellows.

The wretched inmates were dependent for food upon the caprice of their gaolers or the charity of the benevolent; water was denied them except in the scantiest proportions; their only bedding was putrid straw.

Chmielnicki, now doubly hateful to the Poles as being both a royalist and a Cossack, was again maltreated and chicaned, and only escaped from gaol by bribing his gaolers.

Synonyms:

screw, turnkey, jailor, lawman, prison guard, keeper, law officer, peace officer, jailer,

Antonyms:

unscrew,