"Phylasist" is a word in LAW AND LEGAL

bastun n {1} walking stick, usually polished and sometimes with carved designs. {2} package, bar, long like a cane. Usa …

Imprisonment; restraint of the person; custody by a jailer; duress. Shak.

The unlawful permission, by a jailer or other custodian, of a prisoner's departure from custody.

A jailer.

The keeper of a jail. See Jailer.

The keeper of a jail or prison.

A keeper or warden of a pris* on or jail

In Scotch law. Jailer or gaoler. 1 Pltc. Crim. Tr. pt. 1, p. 33

A person, under the super-lntendence of a jailer, who has the charge of the keys of the prison, for the …