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Groom
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stableboy
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Word definitions for stableboy in dictionaries
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. someone employed in a stable to take care of the horses [syn: stableman , groom , hostler , ostler ]
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Stableboy \Sta"ble*boy`\ (-boi`), Stableman \Sta"ble*man\ (-m[a^]n), n. A boy or man who attends in a stable; a groom; a hostler.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (alternative form of stable boy English)
Usage examples of stableboy.
If some of the stableboys or anyone else had ducked in here for private merrymaking, there would be the sound of voices and giggling.
The stableboy had left it open when he returned from wheeling a barrowload of manure to the pile there.
With only Trager and a handful of Chargers for company, Lukien had been forced to bear the stares of Reecian soldiers and stableboys and the whispers of the castle I appearing.
As a stableboy led the black away, the silver daggers could see the Boar rampant quite clearly, stamped on the saddle-skirts as well as the saddle-bags.
Dain jogged through the rain, squinting, his shoulders hunched up, he saw the Thirst stableboys standing in the doorway, gawking and chewing straws.
Now with three minds and three matrixes focused, they sent the healing-spell beating out through all the castle, and from cellar to attic and everywhere in the crowded courtyard, servants and soldiers and guardsmen and stableboys came out of the dazed trance wherein each had heard the cries of whoever he loved best and fought blindly to rescue that one from the hands of a nameless enemy.
All the workers, from the sweeps to the stableboys to the milkmaids to the cheese-makers and so on, sat and feasted together, clinking their brass cups in toasts, tossing bones to the dogs, laughing and jesting in good fellowship.
Here he is generally surrounded by an admiring throng of ostlers, stableboys, shoeblacks, and those nameless hangers-on that infest inns and taverns, and run errands and do all kind of odd jobs for the privilege of battening on the drippings of the kitchen and the leakage of the tap-room.
Careless stableboys sometimes abandoned half-eaten apples or tossed the cores away.
The stableboys drew lots and pulled off their tunics for wrestling, until they were sweaty and winded from their efforts.
Rupert had delegated his chauffeur and two of the stableboys to take them to Southampton in three cars with what little luggage they still had.
Where the hawk in the deserted west tower and the rodents that made their nests in the courtyards below heard only the wind and the stirrings of dead grasses as they rasped against the weathered stones, the two men heard music drifting lazily from the inner keep, the voices of stableboys and maids gossiping in the courtyard, horses stamping in the stables, the creak of the wooden pulley as water was drawn from the well, and the hundred other sounds of an occupied keep.
She imagined a horde of ragged scullery maids, stableboys, and undergardeners following to demonstrate just what it took to maintain one young fop in gilded armor in what he deemed his proper state.
Assisted by sleepy-eyed Pendrill and the stableboy, Tennetty had already bridled Carrot and slipped a horse blanket onto the chestnut mare's back.
The lord chancellor was only too glad to share a mattress with a stableboy, and steal his bare feet under his jacket.