OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 11175

turnkey

/ˈtɜː(ɹ)nˌkiː/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
llavero
A warder or jailer; a keeper of the keys in a prison.
He saw the same Turnkey unfetter a man / With but little expedition, / Which put him in mind of the long debate / On the Slave-trade abolition.
[…]they passed through an open door into a lobby, from which a heavy gate, opposite to that by which they had entered, and which was guarded by a stout turnkey with the key in his…
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