Associations to the word «Hostler»

Wiktionary

HOSTLER, noun. A person employed at an inn, hostelry, or stable to look after horses; a groom
HOSTLER, noun. (by extension) A person employed to care for a locomotive or other large engine.

Dictionary definition

HOSTLER, noun. Someone employed in a stable to take care of the horses.

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats