hostler
hos ler
- n someone employed in a stable to take care of the horses
- The new streets-as-buildings would provide garages at every stop, making disposal of the auto as simple as flinging the reins to the hostler at the local inn.
- He worked, during the next few years, as a servant in Rome, a street singer, a hostler in Bologna, a moneylender's agent, tax collector, mule driver, hangman's assistant, miller .
- It might never have been discovered had not it become disabled and a hostler-electrician been called to repair it.