hostlers

The students also that remain in them are called hostlers or halliers.

Chronicle and Romance (The Harvard Classics Series) Thomas Malory Jean Froissart

The students also that remain in them are called hostlers or halliers.

Of Universities. Chapter XVIII. [1577, Book II., Chapter 6; 1587, Book II., Chapter 3 1909

Watering troughs and hitching posts stood in front of the main building, which doubled as a dining room and bunkhouse for the station keeper and assorted hostlers, blacksmiths, and hangers-on.

LIGHTING OUT FOR THE TERRITORY JR. ROY MORRIS 2010

And whatever he and his men carried, it was something he preferred not to expose to the curious gaze of innkeepers and hostlers.

Sick Cycle Carousel 2010

"Easy now, easy now, easy now, Mr. Reich," they said with the hissing noise with which hostlers soothe savage stallions.

Wild Dreams of Reality, 5 2010

Watering troughs and hitching posts stood in front of the main building, which doubled as a dining room and bunkhouse for the station keeper and assorted hostlers, blacksmiths, and hangers-on.

LIGHTING OUT FOR THE TERRITORY JR. ROY MORRIS 2010

Rail yard engineers, yard engine operators and hostlers now make 14.0% less than they used to, the second-largest drop in pay, to $34,840 from $40,510 Locomotive engineers were hit even harder; they now make 15.4% less than before, though unlike rail yard engineers they still make slightly more than the national average.

America's Best- And Worst-Paying Jobs 2009

Alan had returned from London with the money at hand, now able to stop at inns where good hostlers would take care of Molly.

Wicked Will Bailey MacDonald 2009

They are transferred using “hostlers” – drivers who run small tugs to pull the trailers on and off the barges and former rail ferries like the one in my picture above.

July « 2009 « Stephen Rees’s blog 2009

Rail yard engineers, yard engine operators and hostlers now make 14.0% less than they used to, the second-largest drop in pay, to $34,840 from $40,510 Locomotive engineers were hit even harder; they now make 15.4% less than before, though unlike rail yard engineers they still make slightly more than the national average.

America's Best- And Worst-Paying Jobs 2009