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OSTLER

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Someone employed in a stable to take care of the horses

Synonyms:

groom; hostler; ostler; stableboy; stableman

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("ostler" is a kind of...):

hand; hired hand; hired man (a hired laborer on a farm or ranch)

Credits

 Context examples: 

“Let go her head!” cried he to the ostler, and with a snap, a crack, and a jingle, away we went upon our journey.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I got out of the coach, gave a box I had into the ostler's charge, to be kept till I called for it; paid my fare; satisfied the coachman, and was going: the brightening day gleamed on the sign of the inn, and I read in gilt letters, The Rochester Arms.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

“We’ve time in hand now, and a little water at the Red Lion will do them no harm. Red four-in-hand passed, ostler?”

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)