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Definition of Ostler
1. Noun. Someone employed in a stable to take care of the horses.
Generic synonyms: Hand, Hired Hand, Hired Man
Derivative terms: Groom
Definition of Ostler
1. n. See Hostler.
Definition of Ostler
1. Noun. A person employed at an inn, hostelry, or stable to look after horses; a groom ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Ostler
1. hostler [n -S] - See also: hostler
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ostler
Literary usage of Ostler
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Punch by Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman (1874)
"Dick the ostler mounts to Ihe driving-box. I stand up, holding on to the ...
Happy Thought (which I keep to myself became it would be lost on Ihe ostler). ..."
2. Black Beauty: The Autobiography of a Horse by Anna Sewell (1904)
"THE OLD ostler AFTER this, it was decided by my master and mistress to pay a ...
The head ostler was a pleasant, active little man, with a crooked leg, ..."
3. Publications by Musical Antiquarian Society (1846)
"WILLIAM ostler. He was one of " the Children of the Queen's Chapel" in 1601, ...
when ostler is introduced as a " principal comedian " in " The Alchemist. ..."
4. The Revised Reports: Being a Republication of Such Cases in the English by Frederick Pollock, Robert Campbell, Oliver Augustus Saunders, Arthur Beresford Cane, Joseph Gerald Pease, William Bowstead, Great Britain Courts (1905)
"He also objected that the warrant was defective, because it did not show on the
face of it that the Commissioners and Mr. ostler had been unable to come to ..."
5. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN (1895)
"ostler played women's parts, whence Gilford assumes that the character he ...
Collier assumes that ostler was drafted into the King's players before 1604, ..."
6. The Romany Rye: A Sequel to Lavengro by George Henry Borrow (1872)
"ostler at a public-house, indeed ! why, you would not compare a berth at a place
like that with the situation of ostler at my inn, the first road-house in ..."
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