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Hostler
Hostler meaning
A worker employed at an inn, hostelry, or stable to look after horses. | A railway worker employed to care for a locomotive or other large engine; especially, a yard jockey.
Example sentences (2)
For example, an ostler (a keeper of horses) and a hostler (an innkeeper) could easily be confused for one another.
His father first worked as a hostler Gittings (1968), 11 at the stables attached to the Swan and Hoop Inn, an establishment he later managed, and where the growing family lived for some years.