Usually means: Keeper of prisoners in jail.
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  1. gaoler: Merriam-Webster
  2. gaoler, gaoler: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. gaoler: Collins English Dictionary
  4. gaoler: Vocabulary.com
  5. Gaoler, gaoler: Wordnik
  6. gaoler: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. gaoler: Wiktionary
  8. Gaoler, gaoler: Dictionary.com
  9. Gaoler: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. Gaoler: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  11. gaoler: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  12. gaoler: Rhymezone
  13. Gaoler: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  14. gaoler: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  15. gaoler: FreeDictionary.org
  16. gaoler: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. gaoler: TheFreeDictionary.com
  18. gaoler: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. gaoler: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  3. Gaoler: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. gaoler: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. GAOLER, GAOLER, GAOLER: Terminology and Descriptions of Geneaological Words

(Note: See gaolers as well.)

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noun:  (Commonwealth, dated) Alternative spelling of jailer [One who enforces confinement in a jail or prison.]

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