hostler en · NOUN
Pronunciation
Etymology
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.
Meanings
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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.
1848 November – 1850 December, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 2, in The History of Pendennis. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1849–1850, →OCLC:
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(US, broadly) A railway worker employed to care for a locomotive or other large engine; especially, a yard jockey.
The employees contend that inasmuch as there are seven engines hostled at Sleepy Eye within a 12-hour period, a hostler from the ranks of the firemen must be assigned […]
1924, Decisions of the United States Railroad Labor Board, page 732:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| ostler | alternative | lexicographic | |
| hostlers | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
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Translations (25)
he סַיָּס (person at an inn who looks after horses) · de Stalljunge (person at an inn who looks after horses) · la agāsō (person at an inn who looks after horses) · cs stájník (person at an inn who looks after horses) · fi tallirenki (person at an inn who looks after horses) · ru ремонтный слесарь (person employed to care for a locomotive) · tr seyis (person at an inn who looks after horses) · az sayis (person at an inn who looks after horses) · az atabaxan (person at an inn who looks after horses) · pl stajenny (person at an inn who looks after horses) · kmr seyîs (person at an inn who looks after horses) · nl staljongen (person at an inn who looks after horses) · pl parowozowy (person employed to care for a locomotive) · mk ко́њушар (person at an inn who looks after horses) · az mehtər (person at an inn who looks after horses) · de Stallknecht (person at an inn who looks after horses) · ar سَائِس (person at an inn who looks after horses) · bg коняр (person at an inn who looks after horses) · sv underhållsarbetare (person employed to care for a locomotive) · mk ко́њар (person at an inn who looks after horses) · cs podkoní (person at an inn who looks after horses) · sv värdshusvärd (person at an inn who looks after horses) · ru ко́нюх (person at an inn who looks after horses) · fr palefrenier (person at an inn who looks after horses) · tr makinist (person employed to care for a locomotive)