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hostles

hostles is the third-person singular simple present indicative of hostle.

Meaning of hostle

Verb

hostle (third-person singular simple present hostles, present participle hostling, simple past and past participle hostled)

  1. (US) To maintain (a locomotive or other large engine); to do the work of a hostler.
    • 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

Questions about hostles

What is hostles the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Hostles is the third-person singular simple present indicative of hostle.

Words near hostles in the dictionary

  1. hostled
  2. hostler
  3. hostlers
  4. hostlership
  5. hostlerships
  6. hostles
  7. hostless
  8. hostling
  9. hostly
  10. hostmask
  11. hostmasks

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Adapted from Wiktionary: hostles (page history and authors); hostle (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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