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An ostler was a man whose job was to look after guests’ horses at an inn or a hotel, in the days when people arrived on or by coach. He took the horses to the stable, gave them food and water, and had them ready when the guest left. The job itself has gone, so the word now lives in old novels, history books, and films set in the past — not in a job . Though actually, ostler is the same word as : people wrote down the sound they heard, and the h often dropped. Both spellings are real; ostler is the one older British writing likes. It is one old job title, not a word for anyone who likes horses, and not said wrong.
馬伕（舊時客棧裡照料旅客馬匹的人）
組成A phonetic spelling of hostler, from the late 14th century: people wrote the word the way they heard it, often without the h.
同家族的字
- hostlerthe same word with the older spelling; ostler is how that sound was written
原始詞典資料1 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。
ostlernoun/ˈɒslə/
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A person employed at an inn, hostelry, or stable to look after horses; a groom.
- Mr. Frank Churchill having resolved to go home directly, without waiting at all, and his horse seeming to have got a cold, Tom had been sent off immediately for the Crown chaise, and the ostler had stood out and seen it pass by, the boy going a good pace, and driving very steady.
- [A]s the London coaches drove up, which in those early days used to set off from the George, Mr. Foker flung the coffee-room window open, and called the guards and coachmen by their Christian names, too, asking about their respective families, and imitating with great liveliness and accuracy the tooting of the horns as Jem the ostler whipped the horses’ cloths off, and the carriages drove gaily away.
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。