Ostler

Quick meaning: Ostler is a noun meaning A person employed at an inn, hostelry, or stable to look after horses; a groom.

Meaning

A person employed at an inn, hostelry, or stable to look after horses; a groom.

Example Sentences

Followed by the sun, I left the grounds of the mansion and entered the deserted park, an ostler leading a large and passive work-horse out to the day's labour.

Mr. Frank Churchill having resolved to go home directly, without waiting at all, and his horse seeming to have got a cold, Tom had been sent off immediately for the Crown chaise, and the ostler had stood out and seen it pass by, the boy going a good pace, and driving very steady.

[A]s the London coaches drove up, which in those early days used to set off from the George, Mr. Foker flung the coffee-room window open, and called the guards and coachmen by their Christian names, too, asking about their respective families, and imitating with great liveliness and accuracy the tooting of the horns as Jem the ostler whipped the horses’ cloths off, and the carriages drove gaily away.

Word Forms

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Synonyms for ostler

Depending on context, synonyms include groom, stableman, stableboy, hostler.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include hostler, stableman, stableboy, groom, ostleress, undergroom.

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