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Word entry · 7 letters

hostler

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"Stable worker"

7 letters · collected on this word page

7 lettersPronunciation /ˈ(h)ɒs.lə/Part of speech nounSorted ehlorstStarts with HEnds with R1 clues
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Definitions

  1. someone employed in a stable to take care of the horses

Word origin

From Middle English hostiler, from Middle French hostiler, from Old French hostelier, from Medieval Latin hostilārius, hospitālārius, from hospitāle "inn", from hospitālis "hospitable", from hospes "host, guest". Both hostler and its alternative form ostler originally meant simply "innkeeper", and acquired a specific association with horses in the second half of the 14th century. Doublet of hosteler and hotelier.

Used in a sentence

  • 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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