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holds the keys yet locks himself in every single day.
means A jailer is the person in charge of keeping prisoners locked up and guarding a jail.
from From Old French 'gaiole' or 'jaiole,' meaning a cage, which traces back through Late Latin 'caveola,' a little cage — a diminutive of Latin 'cavea,' a hollow or enclosure (the same root that gives us 'cage' and 'cave'). So the jailer is, quite literally, the keeper of the little cage. The spelling split into 'jailer' and the older 'gaoler' — the latter still lingers in British texts, looking stranger every year.
shared sentencespends more hours inside than most inmates do
old titlegaoler in Britain, pronounced exactly the same
medieval payoften earned wages by charging prisoners for food
key powera single ring could control hundreds of lives
etymologyrooted in Latin cavea, meaning cage or hollow