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OSTLER
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Someone employed in a stable to take care of the horses
Synonyms:
groom; hostler; ostler; stableboy; stableman
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("ostler" is a kind of...):
hand; hired hand; hired man (a hired laborer on a farm or ranch)
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)