hostling

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