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hostler

[ US /ˈhɑsɫɝ/ ]
NOUN
  1. someone employed in a stable to take care of the horses

How To Use hostler In A Sentence

  • Candle makers, after all, cannot be expected to hail the invention of the electric light bulb, nor hostlers the advent of automobiles, nor canal-boat owners the building of railways, nor TV broadcasters the laying down of cable systems.
  • Then, the hostler was told to give the horse his head; and, his head being given him, he made a very unpleasant use of it: tossing it into the air with great disdain, and running into the parlour windows over the way; after performing those feats, and supporting himself for a short time on his hind – legs, he started off at great speed, and rattled out of the town right gallantly. Oliver Twist
  • Erial smiled gratefully as the hostler brought up three horses.
  • With the haste of a double-fee'd hostler did Julian exchange the equipments of his jaded brute with poor Dobbin, who stood quietly tugging at his rackful of hay, without dreaming of the business which was that night destined for him. Peveril of the Peak
  • As he dismounted, a hostler came out of the stable across the street WHEN THE HEAVENS FALL
  • This time the aspirant was a gay young hostler, who conceived the desperate project of posing as the regent's son. The Swedish Revolution Under Gustavus Vasa
  • ‘All these things put together, excited their curiosity; and they engaged a peery servant, as they called a footman who was drinking with Kit. the hostler, at the tap-house, to watch all her motions. Clarissa Harlowe
  • Here we stopped, turning our horses over to the attention of a hostler, who moved so slowly as to seem ossified. Sick Cycle Carousel
  • Young gen'lm'n, Rugby; three parcels, Leicester; hamper o 'game, Rugby," answers hostler. Tom Brown's Schooldays
  • After searching the entire castle, I eventually found them in the stables handing their horses over to the hostlers after a ride.
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