Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A keeper of a livery-stable who lets out horses and carriages by the week or mouth.

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Examples

  • Go to the horse-dealer and the coachmaker who are employed by the job-master where Paccard finds work.

    Scenes from a Courtesan's Life 2007

  • I was down at Broadstairs and soon discovered a job-master and arranged to go out the next day.

    Fanny Goes to War Pat Beauchamp Washington

  • I also discovered a Monsieur Jollivet at Neuilly, a job-master who had a few horses left, among them a little English mare which I rode.

    Fanny Goes to War Pat Beauchamp Washington

  • In a narrow alley off Sea Street lived Gorseth the job-master, with a household consisting of a lean and skinny wife, two half-starved horses, and a few ramshackle flies and sledges.

    The Great Hunger Johan Bojer 1915

  • He found the job-master greasing the wheels of a carriage, while his wife leaned out of a window scolding at him.

    The Great Hunger Johan Bojer 1915

  • The job-master himself was a hulking toper with red nose and beery-yellow eyes, who spent his nights in drinking and got home in the small hours of the morning when his wife was just about getting up.

    The Great Hunger Johan Bojer 1915

  • A less Fortunate Youth might have had to walk, risking boots impolitely muddy, or to hire a funereal cab from the local job-master; but Paul had only to give an order, and the cart and showy chestnut were brought round to the front door of Drane's Court.

    The Fortunate Youth 1914

  • A less Fortunate Youth might have had to walk, risking boots impolitely muddy, or to hire a funereal cab from the local job-master; but Paul had only to give an order, and the cart and showy chestnut were brought round to the front door of Drane's

    The Fortunate Youth William John Locke 1896

  • 'He's a grand' orse, sir, isn't he? 'said the job-master complacently.

    The Talking Horse And Other Tales F. Anstey 1895

  • I am afraid the job-master considered me little better than a fool.

    The Talking Horse And Other Tales F. Anstey 1895

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