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• n  someone employed in a stable to take care of the horses

• He was a famed host, racing stableman, patron of the American Museum of Natural History.
• Thomas Augustus Watson was a livery stableman's son, a shy boy who roamed the woods declaiming poems to trees and stones.
• His father, a stableman, died when Keats was nine, and his mother remarried, unhappily.

• stableboy
• groom
• hostler
• ostler