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detainers

n. (plural of detainer English)

Usage examples of "detainers".

One of the really great detainers and keepers-in of our time, Old Hector.

At length, after temporarily felling one of his detainers with a sudden blow, he had flung himself upon the other in a demoniac ecstasy of blood-thirstiness, shrieking fiendishly that he would "jump high in the air and burn his way through anything that stopped him.