ostler
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of ostler
C15: variant of hostler, from hostel
Vocabulary lists containing ostler
Example Sentences
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“The originals were bloody and holey,” said Richard James, who was playing the part of an ostler looking after the horses.
From The Guardian • Jun. 21, 2015
He walked in and sat upon it like an ostler at his master's wedding, awkward but proud, mortified but grinning, sheepish without shame.
From Time Magazine Archive
"Three indeed," whispered Tilly, the pot-girl, to Lacey, the ostler, "when anyone could see a full seven of those fine gentlemen standing in the road."
From "Stardust" by Neil Gaiman
“He’s better than he looks, ostler: and ’tisn’t any man’s money that will buy him.
From The History of Margaret Catchpole A Suffolk Girl by Cobbold, Richard
It was well that my lord had ridden forward, for so many families were beginning to steal out of Dublin that, as an ostler put it, there was a 'furious penury of beds.'
From My Lords of Strogue, Vol. II (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union by Wingfield, Lewis
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