stable lad
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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The trainer who clutches the horse’s bridle and the stable lad are as stiff as Madame Tussaud’s waxen figures and the outhouse in the distance is painted with curiously amateurish clumsiness.
From New York Times ● Jul. 8, 2011
When Henderson took out his first trainers' licence, Nicholls had just started out in the game as a 16-year-old stable lad.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 12, 2011
Once I had lost three stone, I decided to go and live the life of a stable lad.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 8, 2011
I don't doubt that many a stable lad or lass grieves when their ward fails to make it home.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 23, 2010
Before the "White Hart" Inn was a smartish pony phaeton, in charge of a stunted stable lad.
From Jorrocks' Jaunts and Jollities by Robert Smith Surtees
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