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What does hostler mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word hostler? Here's what it means.

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.
So the hostler cracked his whip, spurred on the lead horse on which he was seated, and the carriage splashed into the estuary.
To fulfill the requirements for a hostler position, employees must undergo a six-week training program.
But the diesel kept going, because the hostler, not being a trainman, had never thought of trying the coupling.
He waved his hand to me, and surrendering his horse to a hostler, entered the house.
Furthermore, the test involved a hostler raising and lowering a hitch which was bolted to the ground, rather than the deck of a loading platform.

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