"gaoler" meaning in English

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          "text": "The Grange is not a prison, Ellen, and you are not my gaoler.",
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          "ref": "1890, William Booth, chapter 7, in In Darkest England and the Way Out:",
          "text": "One very important section of the denizens of Darkest England are the criminals and the semi-criminals. They are more or less predatory, and are at present shepherded by the police and punished by the gaoler.",
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          "ref": "1966, James Workman, The Mad Emperor, Melbourne, Sydney: Scripts, page 41:",
          "text": "A gaoler struck him, pushing him back in place in the hopeless, helpless line of prisoners.",
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