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What does hostler mean?

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Noun
  1. A person employed at an inn, hostelry, or stable to look after horses; a groom
  2. (by extension) A person employed to care for a locomotive or other large engine.
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So the hostler cracked his whip, spurred on the lead horse on which he was seated, and the carriage splashed into the estuary.
Baning was employed there as an hostler, and to that extent he was entirely within his rights.
To fulfill the requirements for a hostler position, employees must undergo a six-week training program.
No one would have mistaken him for anything other than a stable-boy or hostler, and these aristocratic brats always made it a point never to look twice at a servant.
He waved his hand to me, and surrendering his horse to a hostler, entered the house.
Mrs. Fairbank remains with the hostler, and favors me with a look at parting.

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