Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A boy who is employed about a stable.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun A boy or man who attends in a stable; a groom; a hostler.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun Alternative form of stable boy.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun someone employed in a stable to take care of the horses

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Examples

  • And now every man guarding the walls and the gates, every servant that heard the cries of surprise, and every stableboy came running out to gape at the skies like a parcel of fools.

    Widows and Orphans R. Daniel Lester 2010

  • I had jumped him stupidly, and he had been injured, and then I walked him home and told my father that the stableboy had lamed him and that I had noticed it as soon as I was away from the stable.

    Enjoyment 2010

  • “Yes,” I think blasphemously, “in such cases the gods help, sending the missing horse, adding a second one because of the urgency, bestowing the stableboy on top of everything else—”

    The Metamorphosis, in The Penal Colony,and Other Stories Franz Kafka 2000

  • What do I do, how can I rescue her, how can I get her out from under that stableboy, ten leagues away, uncontrollable horses in front of my wagon?

    The Metamorphosis, in The Penal Colony,and Other Stories Franz Kafka 2000

  • He stepped around the stableboy, who was standing in the middle of the path staring after the maid.

    The Laird Who Loved Me Karen Hawkins 2009

  • An approaching stableboy glanced in her direction, stared as his mouth fell open, then, without tearing his gaze from her face, tripped over his own feet and fell over a low hedge.

    The Laird Who Loved Me Karen Hawkins 2009

  • He stepped around the stableboy, who was standing in the middle of the path staring after the maid.

    The Laird Who Loved Me Karen Hawkins 2009

  • To keep his anger in control, Alexander focused again on the stableboy.

    The Laird Who Loved Me Karen Hawkins 2009

  • An approaching stableboy glanced in her direction, stared as his mouth fell open, then, without tearing his gaze from her face, tripped over his own feet and fell over a low hedge.

    The Laird Who Loved Me Karen Hawkins 2009

  • To keep his anger in control, Alexander focused again on the stableboy.

    The Laird Who Loved Me Karen Hawkins 2009

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