STABLEMAN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does stableman mean? 

• STABLEMAN (noun)
  The noun STABLEMAN has 1 sense:

1. someone employed in a stable to take care of the horses

  Familiarity information: STABLEMAN used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• STABLEMAN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Someone employed in a stable to take care of the horses

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

groom; hostler; ostler; stableboy; stableman

Hypernyms ("stableman" is a kind of...):

hand; hired hand; hired man (a hired laborer on a farm or ranch)

 Context examples 

Now she rides anything, for she doesn't know what fear is, and the stableman lets her have horses cheap because she trains them to carry ladies so well.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Martin dispensed royal largess, inviting everybody up, farm-hands, a stableman, and the gardener's assistant from the hotel, the barkeeper, and the furtive hobo who slid in like a shadow and like a shadow hovered at the end of the bar.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

The hot weather made him indolent, and he had shirked his studies, tried Mr. Brooke's patience to the utmost, displeased his grandfather by practicing half the afternoon, frightened the maidservants half out of their wits by mischievously hinting that one of his dogs was going mad, and, after high words with the stableman about some fancied neglect of his horse, he had flung himself into his hammock to fume over the stupidity of the world in general, till the peace of the lovely day quieted him in spite of himself.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)