hostler

[hos-ler, os-ler] Origin

hos·tler

[hos-ler, os-ler]
noun
1.
a person who takes care of horses, especially at an inn.
2.
an employee who moves and services trains, buses, or other vehicles after their regular runs or who does the maintenance work on large machines.

Origin:
1350–1400; Middle English; variant of hosteler

hos·tler·ship, noun
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Hostler is always a great word to know.
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an extraordinary or unusual thing, person, or event; an exceptional example or instance.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
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ostler or hostler (ˈɒslə)
 
n
archaic a stableman, esp one at an inn
 
[C15: variant of hostler, from hostel]
 
hostler or hostler
 
n
 
[C15: variant of hostler, from hostel]

hostler (ˈɒslə)
 
n
another name (esp Brit) for ostler

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hostler
late 14c., "one who tends to horses at an inn," also, occasionally, "innkeeper," from Anglo-Fr. hostiler, from M.L. hostilarius "the monk who entertains guests at a monastery," from hospitale "inn" (see hospital). See also ostler.
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