ostler

Noun

ostler (plural ostlers)

1. A person employed at an inn, hostelry, or stable to look after horses; a groom.
   • Mr. Frank Churchill having resolved to go home directly, without waiting at all, and his horse seeming to have got a cold, Tom had been sent off immediately for the Crown chaise, and the ostler had stood out and seen it pass by, the boy going a good pace, and driving very steady.1815 December (indicated as 1816), [Jane Austen], chapter 8, in Emma: […], volume III, London: […] [Charles Roworth and James Moyes] for John Murray, →OCLC
   • [A]s the London coaches drove up, which in those early days used to set off from the George, Mr. Foker flung the coffee-room window open, and called the guards and coachmen by their Christian names, too, asking about their respective families, and imitating with great liveliness and accuracy the...1848 November – 1850 December, William Makepeace Thackeray, The History of Pendennis. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1849–1850, →OCLC

   Synonyms:

   groom