Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who keeps or takes care of horses.
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Examples
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Whereto the Count replyed, that very gladly he would embrace his kinde offer: but he was capeable of no other service, save onely to be an horsekeeper, wherein he had imployed the most part of his time.
The Decameron 2004
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Charlie Dynes, Westall's assistant, had been first discovered by a horsekeeper in Farmer Wellin's employment as he was going to his work.
Marcella Humphry Ward 1885
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In this vehicle, whose gaunt steed was led at a melancholy trot by an equally small-fed horsekeeper, I traversed the environs of Colombo.
Eight Years' Wanderings in Ceylon Samuel White Baker 1857
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Once more all sounds sink to rest for a few minutes, until the low, grating roar of a leopard nearer home warns the horses of their danger and wakes up the sleeping horsekeeper, who piles fresh wood upon the fires, and the bright blaze shoots up among the trees and throws a dull, ruddy glow across the surface of the water.
Eight Years' Wanderings in Ceylon Samuel White Baker 1857
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It. to my servant, John Hynde, my horsekeeper, £3 6s. 8d.
The Reign of Henry the Eighth, Volume 1 (of 3) James Anthony Froude 1856
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The horsekeeper answered, "No, O my lord, I never will."
Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855
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Replied the wife of her craft and cursedness, "Haply, O my lord, the horsekeeper will befit us not;", yet the while she had set her heart upon him.
Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855
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Robinson (34) our housekeeper [horsekeeper] (35) it is some time since he left the Columbia, and has little news.
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The horsekeeper had probably had orders to come down to the month of the Spokane River, and there await Mr. Work's arrival.
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He was furnished with two camels, a cook, a horsekeeper, and three servants belonging to the governor, all of whose wages he agreed to pay at certain fixed rates, and was also accompanied by a linguist named Alberto.
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