hostler

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But we have electric forklifts; we have electric hostlers.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 1, 2026

In the end the caravan was made up of more than 300 soldiers, "several hundred Indians who went as servants, hostlers or herdsmen," more than a thousand horses and mules, and a flock of sheep.

From Time Magazine Archive

In the centre of their joint estate stand their stables and dairy farm, an institutional affair of red brick, manned by spick-&-span hostlers and milkmen.

From Time Magazine Archive

Along with engineers, the union's membership includes hostlers, the men who take over the locomotives once they enter railyards and shunt them off for maintenance operations or refueling.

From Time Magazine Archive

Not too far away from the Big House were the stables, where the riding horses and the carriage horses, the grooms and the hostlers were housed.

From "Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad" by Ann Petry