stablehands

Here, it is not uncommon for local residents to open their homes to flat tire victims, granting them food and lodging for the night while their stablehands patch the tube and send the rider off rested and well nourished the following morn.

BSNYC Road Dairy: Last Stop Portland BikeSnobNYC 2010

Being a staple at the track for so many decades, Tony had struck up friendships and always had the lowdown from the stablehands.

Morning Promise 2010

Alas, she's trapped in a movie that seems unaware that wise Negro stablehands and drooling Faulknerian man-children have gone out of style for a very good reason.

GreenCine Daily: Sundance. Hounddog. 2007

My father puts rifles in the arms of the stablehands and the Indians.

Tours of the Black Clock Steve Erickson 2008

That seems the most obvious and direct method, but what a chore it must have been, especially for stablehands.

thoughts on fingers dudemanflab 2008

But Luke and the boys beside him were stablehands, the lowest of the low, so even though they had to line up outside at six A.M., sometimes it was six thirty or even seven before the sergeant stalked down the row.

Among the Free Margaret Peterson Haddix 2006

These were also the living quarters of the head coachman, two grooms, and four young stablehands who slept in a loft above the stables.

Soul Learner_Tobsha 2006

But Luke and the boys beside him were stablehands, the lowest of the low, so even though they had to line up outside at six A.M., sometimes it was six thirty or even seven before the sergeant stalked down the row.

Among the Free Margaret Peterson Haddix 2006

But some months before, Trism explained, sloppy stablehands had left behind a bucket of cleansing solvent helpful in disinfecting the floors of their stone stalls.

Son of a Witch Maguire, Gregory 2005

Alberich being Alberich, he saw to Kantors tack himself, except for the fancy 'show" or -parade" tack, so it wasnt really any inconvenience to the stablehands, either, for Kantor to have his everyday kit down here.

Exile's Valor Lackey, Mercedes 2003