stableman
Americannoun
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stablemen
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Origin of stableman
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But he recovers enough to gallop again thanks to the help of a vet, a stableman and a Labrador.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 13, 2022
After finding a reindeer to replace the injured Prancer, Santa’s stableman finds himself falling in love with the animal’s owner.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 18, 2019
Mr. Malbone eventually remarried, and he and his wife had a son, also named Ralph, who exhausted the family fortune and ended up working as a stableman for a Brooklyn hotel.
From New York Times ● Jun. 2, 2016
He was a famed host, racing stableman, patron of the American Museum of Natural History.
From Time Magazine Archive
He spoke to the stableman, who soon brought round the cart, low-wheeled and nimble; harnessed the mules, and backed them in the traces.
From "The Odyssey" by Homer
She wards off loneliness through peculiar obsessions, particularly a fantasy TV series called “Purgatory” and the horse she once owned, which she visits frequently enough to annoy its new owner and stablemen.
From New York Times ● Feb. 6, 2020
At the depot itself, the veterinary staff worked alongside an even larger corps of workers, including farriers and stablemen as well as loaders and wranglers.
From Washington Times ● Dec. 4, 2016
At the oat pail, Silky is what stablemen call a "good doer."
From Time Magazine Archive
It turned out that this was youth and inexperience, as harmless as chickenpox; in his convalescent state he realized that stablemen didn't need company as much as they needed better living accommodations.
From Time Magazine Archive
They included Giusta’s wife, maids, cooks, porters, gardeners, stablemen, and doormen.
From "In the Shadow of Liberty" by Kenneth C. Davis
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