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Definition of Ostlers
1. ostler [n] - See also: ostler
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ostlers
Literary usage of Ostlers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Connoisseur by George Colman, B. Thornton (1904)
"Soon, however, he was back at his old amusements, riding on the box of the
Hampstead, Highgate, and Barnet coaches, and associating with "ostlers, pot-boys, ..."
2. A Text-book of Coal-mining: For the Use of Colliery Managers and Others by Herbert William Hughes (1904)
"Cost of Corn Cutting and ostlers.—At the colliery under notice, the feeds are
all prepared and mixed at bank by two men, and the cost per horse per week ..."
3. The Romany Rye: A Sequel to Lavengro by George Henry Borrow (1872)
"Arrival at Horncastle—The Inn and ostlers—The Garret—Figure of a Man with a Candle.
LEAVING the house of the old man who knew Chinese, but could not tell ..."
4. On the Box Seat from London to Land's End by James John Hissey (1886)
"... Tunnel on the Way—Dorsetshire Distances—The Value of ostlers'
Information—Axminster—A finished Town—Churchyard Inscriptions—An uncharitable
Epitaph—The ..."
5. A Journal of a Tour in Italy, in the Year 1821: With a Description of by Theodore Dwight (1824)
"... an inn on an occasion like this; for, though the horses were unharnessed by
the ostlers, led into the stables, and treated with marked ..."
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