0 in the past, someone who took care of people's horses when they stopped at an inn (= a place where you can stay for a night while on a journey): --
An ostler took the cavalryman's horse.
Ostler's death may have been sudden, and was problemmatical in that he died intestate.
The present building was built in the early 17th century as the residence of the coaching inn's ostler.
These buildings included stables, livery and ostlers rooms and later a cottage.
But the ostler in charge of horses has to be there seven days a week, early in the morning and late at night, to feed and water them.
He says that for shipping operators to claim to be air operators is like an ostler claiming to be a qualified motor mechanic, or a barber a qualified surgeon.
He keeps horses, and also an ostler.
The condition of the horses was good at all except one mine, with 11 horses, where there was cause for serious complaint regarding the food and the ostler's work.
For the sake of argument, the ostlers who ran the coaches were not to blame because their form of transport became unfashionable.
