hostler
Americannoun
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a person who takes care of horses, especially at an inn.
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an employee who moves and services trains, buses, or other vehicles after their regular runs or who does the maintenance work on large machines.
noun
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of hostler
First recorded in 1350–1400; Middle English; variant of hosteler
Example Sentences
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The new streets-as-buildings would provide garages at every stop, making disposal of the auto as simple as flinging the reins to the hostler at the local inn.
From Time Magazine Archive
The groom or hostler, a man she had never seen, was standing in the door, eyes wide with fright.
From "Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad" by Ann Petry
They finally took the hostler off and put a cobbler on, who came in last.
From The Lash by Lyman, Olin L.
Colonel Tennytown had directed a hostler who followed the party to bring out a sorrel gelding of which he was especially proud.
From The Red Debt Echoes from Kentucky by MacDonald, Everett
It happened one evening I wandered over the hills to the end of the little jerk-line that ran our way, and watched the hostler put the engine in the shed for the night.
From Plain Mary Smith A Romance of Red Saunders by Phillips, Henry Wallace
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