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/ˈ(h)ɒs.lə/ · noun
A worker employed at an inn, hostelry, or stable to look after horses..
As the chaise drove through Clavering, the hostler standing whistling under the archway of the Clavering Arms, winked the postilion ominously, as much as to say all was over.
Use hostler when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Hostler means A worker employed at an inn, hostelry, or stable to look after horses..
Common synonyms include groom, switcher, shunter, ostler.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
As the chaise drove through Clavering, the hostler standing whistling under the archway of the Clavering Arms, winked the postilion ominously, as much as to say all was over.
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