Definitions
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- n. a person employed to take care of horses in a stable
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- n. someone employed in a stable to take care of the horses
Etymologies
Examples
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He called his stableman, told him to put up the horses, and went to his room.
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"I am 'stableman' for three days, and so missed a bathing parade to-day, which is a nuisance, as there is no means of washing here nearer than a river some distance off, to which the others rode.
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A stableman came on the run to take the mare, and Forrest, scarce pausing for a word about a horse by the name of Duddy, was clanking his spurs into the Big House.
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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.
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Peter Collins, the stableman, stepped forward to offer his services as sheriff.
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I parted with a platinum ring and got no change, but the carriage the stableman was hitching up belonged to me.
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"Let's hope the stableman is done with them by now so we can get out of here."
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“Hey, Brother, hey, Sister!” shouted the stableman, and two horses, mighty creatures with strong flanks, tucking their legs in close to their bodies, lowering their well-shaped heads like camels, shuffled out one behind the other solely by twisting their rumps out of the doorway, which they filled completely.
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“Help him,” I said, and the willing girl dashed over to hand the wagon harness to the stableman.
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The disgusting stableman rages in my home; Rosa is his victim; I refuse to picture it.
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