OSTLER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does ostler mean? 

• OSTLER (noun)
  The noun OSTLER has 1 sense:

1. someone employed in a stable to take care of the horses

  Familiarity information: OSTLER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• OSTLER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Someone employed in a stable to take care of the horses

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

groom; hostler; ostler; stableboy; stableman

Hypernyms ("ostler" is a kind of...):

hand; hired hand; hired man (a hired laborer on a farm or ranch)

 Context examples 

No one had seen or heard anything of him, and the single cry in the night of which the ostler told us was the only indication of the tragedy which had taken place.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

"How far is Thornfield Hall from here?" I asked of the ostler.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Neither varlet nor ostler could be seen, so he pushed open the door and called loudly for the landlord.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It was a young fellow about seventeen, dressed like an ostler, with leather cords and gaiters.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

And poor John's son came to talk to Mr. Elton about relief from the parish; he is very well to do himself, you know, being head man at the Crown, ostler, and every thing of that sort, but still he cannot keep his father without some help; and so, when Mr. Elton came back, he told us what John ostler had been telling him, and then it came out about the chaise having been sent to Randalls to take Mr. Frank Churchill to Richmond.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

The bright yellow glare from a stable lantern cut a ring suddenly from the darkness, and an ostler came lounging out of the yard.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Tapster, ostler, varlet, hark hither, and a wannion on your lazy limbs!

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I proposed to walk the distance quietly by myself; and very quietly, after leaving my box in the ostler's care, did I slip away from the George Inn, about six o'clock of a June evening, and take the old road to Thornfield: a road which lay chiefly through fields, and was now little frequented.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

What Mr. Elton had learned from the ostler on the subject, being the accumulation of the ostler's own knowledge, and the knowledge of the servants at Randalls, was, that a messenger had come over from Richmond soon after the return of the party from Box Hill—which messenger, however, had been no more than was expected; and that Mr. Churchill had sent his nephew a few lines, containing, upon the whole, a tolerable account of Mrs. Churchill, and only wishing him not to delay coming back beyond the next morning early; but that Mr. Frank Churchill having resolved to go home directly, without waiting at all, and his horse seeming to have got a cold, Tom had been sent off immediately for the Crown chaise, and the ostler had stood out and seen it pass by, the boy going a good pace, and driving very steady.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

I perceive three of the county constabulary in the drive, and I am glad to see that the little ostler is able to keep pace with them, so it is likely that neither he nor the interesting bridegroom will be permanently damaged by their morning’s adventures.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)