stableman
nounEtymology From stable + -man.
1
A person employed to take care of horses in a stable.
- Near-synonyms: stablehand, stable boy, groom (all traditionally loosely synonymous)
- In fact, a horse that has been accustomed to be attended by a stableman will want to have little niceties done to him that a hawbuck of a groom never thinks of doing.1851, Harry Hieover, The Pocket and the Stud, page 93:
- Related terms
- horse boy, horse girl, horseman, horsewoman