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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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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.
When the two of them reached the entrance to the stables, a hostler came walking up.
Work allocation was conducive to the development of adaptations because hostler crews benefited by hastening their assigned tasks.
But the diesel kept going, because the hostler, not being a trainman, had never thought of trying the coupling.
So the hostler cracked his whip, spurred on the lead horse on which he was seated, and the carriage splashed into the estuary.
Mrs. Fairbank remains with the hostler, and favors me with a look at parting.

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