stableman
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.32 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A person employed to take care of horses in a stable.
Example Sentences
- "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."
Etymology
Etymology tree English stable Proto-Indo-European *mon- Proto-Germanic *mann- Proto-West Germanic *mann Old English mann Middle English man Middle English -man English -man English stableman From stable + -man.