Crossword clues for hostler
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Hostler \Hos"tler\, n. [OE. hosteler, osteler, innkeeper, OF. hostelier, F. h[^o]telier. See Hostel, and cf. Hospitaler, Hosteler.]
An innkeeper. [Obs.] See Hosteler.
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.
(Railroad) The person who takes charge of a locomotive when it is left by the engineer after a trip.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., "one who tends to horses at an inn," also, occasionally, "innkeeper," from Anglo-French hostiler, Old French hostelier "innkeeper, steward" (12c., Modern French hôtelier), from Medieval Latin hostilarius "the monk who entertains guests at a monastery," from hospitale "inn" (see hospital). See also ostler.
Wiktionary
n. 1 A person employed at an inn, hostelry, or stable to look after horses; a groom 2 (context by extension English) A person employed to care for a locomotive or other large engine.
WordNet
Wikipedia
Usage examples of "hostler".
Jack hearing some of this talk, which he half understood, was convulsed in silent laughter over the remarkable ideas that seemed to possess the minds of those French mechanicians and hostlers.
Whereunto the drowsie Hostler half asleepe, and turning on the other side, answered, What know I whether you have murthered your Companion whom you brought in yesternight, or no, and now seeke the means to escape away?
Kennerly had turned to watch him, aware of the fact that he could whirl and catch the hostler with some true and untinctured emotion distilled on his face.
She was just thinking it might be best to send him back to Bilbao with the hostler, when she heard Rognvald hail them from across the square.
Otteson, Rydberg, and Isager took it for granted the hostler had been killed.
He attended to the paying of the station-keepers, hostlers, drivers and blacksmiths, and discharged them whenever he chose.
Hanshiro beckoned to the hostlers who were bringing three horses from the stable next door.
Hanshiro and Kasane stopped only to visit the wayside privies, change hostlers in Ishiyakushi and Kameyama, and buy food to eat as they rode.
Grooms and hostlers were busy with their tasks, currying horses and checking hooves.
The hostlers unfolded curious shaggy ponchos with slits that left their bare arms free.
The hostlers, honest traders once welcome throughout the empire, were war refugees, as were many other folk.
The negative news disheartened the hostlers, who quietly posted guards.
The hostlers and station-keepers treated the really powerful conductor of the coach merely with the best of what was their idea of civility, but the driver was the only being they bowed down to and worshipped.
We could not eat, and there was no conversation among the hostlers and herdsmen--we all sat at the same board.
Whereunto the drowsie Hostler half asleepe, and turning on the other side, answered, What know I whether you have murthered your Companion whom you brought in yesternight, or no, and now seeke the means to escape away?