hostler

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hos·tler

(hŏs′lər, ŏs′-) also os·tler (ŏs′-)

1. One who is employed to tend horses, especially at an inn.

2. One who services a large vehicle or engine, such as a locomotive.

[Middle English, from Anglo-Norman hostiler, from Old French hostel, lodging; see hostel.]

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hostler

(ˈɒslə)

another name (esp Brit) for ostler

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hos•tler

(ˈhɒs lər, ˈɒs lər)

n.

1. a person who takes care of horses, esp. at an inn.

2. a person who services trains, buses, etc., or maintains large machines.

[1350–1400; Middle English; variant of hosteler]

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Noun

hostler - someone employed in a stable to take care of the horses

ostler, stableboy, stableman, groom

hired hand, hired man, hand - a hired laborer on a farm or ranch; "the hired hand fixed the railing"; "a ranch hand"

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staljongen

конюх

makinist seyis

hostler

[ˈɒsləʳ] N → mozo m de cuadra

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"Practice makes perfect," said the crooked little hostler, "and 'twould be a pity if it didn't; forty years' practice, and not perfect!

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An hostler stood near, holding by the bridle another immense horse--apparently a near relative of the animal in the chaise--ready saddled for Mr.

'Not the slightest fear, Sir,' interposed the hostler. 'Warrant him quiet, Sir; a hinfant in arms might drive him.'

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Tom and his father had alighted at the Peacock at about seven in the evening; and having heard with unfeigned joy the paternal order, at the bar, of steaks and oyster-sauce for supper in half an hour, and seen his father seated cozily by the bright fire in the coffee-room with the paper in his hand, Tom had run out to see about him, had wondered at all the vehicles passing and repassing, and had fraternized with the boots and hostler, from whom he ascertained that the Tally-ho was a tip-top goer--ten miles an hour including stoppages--and so punctual that all the road set their clocks by her.

"Young gen'lm'n, Rugby; three parcels, Leicester; hamper o' game, Rugby," answers hostler.

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Oliver and Sikes got in without any further ceremony; and the man to whom he belonged, having lingered for a minute or two 'to bear him up,' and to defy the hostler and the world to produce his equal, mounted also.

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Only Susan Chambermaid was now stirring, she being obliged to wash the kitchen before she retired to the arms of the fond expecting hostler.

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'He's enough to fret a man's heart out,' replied the hostler. 'He is the most wicious rascal--Woa then, will you?'

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Higginbotham's catastrophe to the hostler. He deemed it advisable, however, not to be too positive as to the date of the direful fact, and also to be uncertain whether it were perpetrated by an Irishman and a mulatto, or by the son of Erin alone.

The coachman said not a word, except to swear awfully at the hostler for not bringing him a fresh team of horses.

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Whereupon, having sold all his meat, he left his horse and cart in charge of a friendly hostler and prepared to follow his mates to the Mansion House.

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But when the time came to pay for his rosemary, this oil, and the wine, the only expense the master had incurred, as he had preserved a strict abstinence--while on the contrary, the yellow horse, by the account of the hostler at least, had eaten three times as much as a horse of his size could reasonably supposed to have done--D'Artagnan found nothing in his pocket but his little old velvet purse with the eleven crowns it contained; for as to the letter addressed to M.