(n.) The person who has the care of horses at an inn or stable; hence, any one who takes care of horses; a groom; -- so called because the innkeeper formerly attended to this duty in person.
(n.) The person who takes charge of a locomotive when it is left by the engineer after a trip.
Example Sentences:
(1) Mortality and cancer incidence was investigated among the 695 bus garage workers employed as mechanics, servicemen, or hostlers for at least six months in five bus garages in Stockholm between 1945 and 1970.
Ostler
Definition:
(n.) See Hostler.
Example Sentences:
(1) | Lawrence Ostlere Read more The bulk of Liverpool’s senior squad are due to start pre-season training at Melwood on Monday, including the former City midfielder James Milner , the first of six signings made by the Anfield club this summer.
(2) Horse & Hound was down 6.4% year on year to 61,445 in the second half of 2008, while Tatler, which has just replaced the London Evening Standard-bound editor Geordie Greig with Catherine Ostler, was down 4.9% to 86,107.
(3) | Lawrence Ostlere Read more “From the moment I drove into Melwood last week and was greeted by Kenny the gateman, I could not have been made to feel more welcome.
(4) Andronicas Sideras, 54, from Southgate, north London; Ulrik Nielsen, 57, from Gentofte in Denmark; and Alex Ostler-Beech, 43, from Hull, are accused of conspiring together and with others to defraud customers by mixing horsemeat with beef to be sold dishonestly as beef that ended up in products such as burgers.
(5) Three men, Andronicos Sideras, Ulrik Nielsen from Denmark and Alex Ostler-Beech, appeared in court in late September accused of arranging beef and horsemeat to be combined and sold as beef in the UK in 2012 in supermarkets including Tesco and Aldi.
(6) 1.19pm BST Ah, my colleague Lawrence Ostlere informs me that Fifa are actually powerless to issue retrospective yellow cards.