hostler
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The new streets-as-buildings would provide garages at every stop, making disposal of the auto as simple as flinging the reins to the hostler at the local inn.
From Time Magazine Archive
The groom or hostler, a man she had never seen, was standing in the door, eyes wide with fright.
From "Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad" by Ann Petry
There were torches lighted in the mews; an hostler took Warlock; I swung out of the saddle and stepped back to a shelter from the storm.
From Cardigan by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers
Colonel Tennytown had directed a hostler who followed the party to bring out a sorrel gelding of which he was especially proud.
From The Red Debt Echoes from Kentucky by Everett MacDonald
Every time I got the chores done early, I skipped it over to the railroad, till finally the hostler he sees a long-legged boy eating him with his eyes, and he says: "Hello, bub!"
From Plain Mary Smith A Romance of Red Saunders by Henry Wallace Phillips
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