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Definition of Hostler

Hostler
Hostler Hos"tler, n. [OE. hosteler, osteler, innkeeper, OF. hostelier, F. h[^o]telier. See Hostel, and cf. Hospitaler, Hosteler.] 1. An innkeeper. [Obs.] See Hosteler. 2. 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. 3. (Railroad) The person who takes charge of a locomotive when it is left by the engineer after a trip.

Meaning of Hostler from wikipedia

- A hostler (/ˈhɒslər/ or /ˈɒslər/) or ostler /ˈɒslər/ was traditionally a groom or stableman who was emplo**** in a stable to take care of horses, usually...
- Jim Hostler (born May 5, 1966) is an American football coach who is a senior offensive ****istant for the Detroit Lions of the National Football League...
- Charles Warren Hostler (December 12, 1919 – September 28, 2014) was an American diplomat. He served as the U.S. Amb****ador to Bahrain from 1989 to 1993...
- locomotive operator, train operator, or motorman. In American English, a hostler (also known as a switcher) moves engines around rail yards, but does not...
- wagon and for the upkeep of those draft animals were called wagoners. Hostler Gunasekera, Jayantha (Feb 9, 2014). "How Kotelawala (Snr) got young brother-in-law...
- lost to Inception. As a result of a botched switching operation by yard hostlers Dewey and Gilleece in an Allegheny and West Virginia Railroad (AWVR) classification...
- and knitwear designer George Hostler, Brandreth created hundreds of jumper designs that appear in books he and Hostler aut****d and produced under their...
- Riding around in the back of his 1951 Mercury, with band roadie Larry Hostler driving, Roth listened repeatedly to the tune. To come up with a lyric...
- enemy, and depicted Gediminas, ancestor of the Gediminids dynasty, as a hostler of Vytenis. In this new Lithuanian chronicle, Palemon (could be Polemon...
- reported that: Albert Herpin, born in France in 1862 and for fifteen years a hostler in the employ of Freeholder Walter Phares of this city, declares that he...