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Hostler is the usual American spelling of ostler. An ostler (or hostler) looks after horses, especially at an inn: feeding them, stabling them, getting them ready for the next ride. Both spellings first meant simply innkeeper; in the second half of the 1300s they became tied to the horses instead of the whole inn. You will mostly meet the word in old stories, Westerns, or period films. Though actually, in American rail yards a hostler is still a real job: the person who moves engines around the depot — a later cousin of the old stable work. It is not a person who works in a , even though the letters look close.
馬夫；客棧裡管馬的人（美式拼法；英式常寫 ostler）。
組成From Middle English hostiler, from Middle French hostiler, from Old French hostelier, from Medieval Latin hostilārius / hospitālārius, from hospitāle “inn”, from hospitālis “hospitable”, from hospes “host, guest”. Both hostler and ostler first meant innkeeper, then became tied to horses. Doublet of hosteler and hotelier.
原始詞典資料3 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
Hostlername
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A surname.
hostlernoun/ˈ(h)ɒs.lə/
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A worker employed at an inn, hostelry, or stable to look after horses.
- As the chaise drove through Clavering, the hostler standing whistling under the archway of the Clavering Arms, winked the postilion ominously, as much as to say all was over.
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A railway worker employed to care for a locomotive or other large engine; especially, a yard jockey.
- The employees contend that inasmuch as there are seven engines hostled at Sleepy Eye within a 12-hour period, a hostler from the ranks of the firemen must be assigned […]
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。