confiner means one who, or that which, limits or restrains. Lexicurio rates it Rare gem — a strength score of 73 out of 100.
noun
- One who, or that which, limits or restrains.“[…] as he attended him through the streets, the common people, and even women, uttered loud exclamations of abuse against him, calling him the murderer of syeds, and confiner of Chaund Sultana.”
- A person who lives on the confines, boundary or edge; a neighbour.“1599, Samuel Daniel, The Civil Wars of England, Book 1, Stanza 18, in Poeticall Essayes, London: Simon Waterson, p. 4,
So did the worldes proud Mistres Rome at first
Striue with a hard beginning, warr’d with need;
Forcing her strong Confiners to the worst,
And in her bloud her greatnes first did breed:”
- A person who lives within the confines; an inhabitant.“The senate hath stirr’d up the confiners
And gentlemen of Italy, most willing spirits,
That promise noble service […]”
- A prisoner incarcerated for a set term.“1819, Joseph John Gurney, Notes on a Visit Made to Some of the Prisons in Scotland and the North of England in Company with Elizabeth Fry, London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme & Brown, p. 64,
Lancaster Castle […] contains two classes of prisoners; first, the untried, and those sentenced to death or transportation; and secondly, confiners,—persons sent hither for terms of imprisonment and labour.”