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  • noun A person who works in a stable.

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Examples

  • He also vowed, with the drunken stablehand as his witness, that he would abandon the horselife forever and become a full human.

    A Boy Who Looks Like Horses, or A Horse Who Looks Like Boys Nathaniel Tower 2012

  • The age of the rider who takes the already groomed horse from the stablehand is still here, not only with wealthy horse owners but with trainers and instructors who pay staff and working students to get the horses ready before each session, but nearly everyone who handles horses has put in time with the brushes and the currycomb.

    BOOK VIEW CAFE BLOG » How to Groom a Horse 2010

  • Because of the way he is dressed, she thinks he's a stablehand not the King of England.

    Scandalous Book Review and Giveaway: The Queen's Pawn by Christy English Elizabeth Kerri Mahon 2010

  • She came across him quite by accident; he was working as a stablehand at the Palace of the Prophets.

    Men Don't Leave Me 2010

  • No one but Nicci ever knew he was anything but a stablehand-they didn't know he was gifted.

    Men Don't Leave Me 2010

  • Because of the way he is dressed, she thinks he's a stablehand not the King of England.

    Archive 2010-04-01 Elizabeth Kerri Mahon 2010

  • The stablehand doesn't even have a name, mostly because almost no one has helped look for him.

    Archive 2007-11-01 2007

  • I mean, when the Unemployment ran out, I worked as a stablehand, shoveling you-know-what, for eight bucks an hour.

    Tuesday, Nov. 17 – The Bleat. 2009

  • Above we have Troy Donahue (“if Troy Donahue can learn to type, then I can learn to type…” I believe was how the lyric in “A Chorus Line” went) as the handsome young writer/stablehand in “Susan Slade” (1961).

    More Sexy Typists Jacqueline T Lynch 2009

  • The stablehand doesn't even have a name, mostly because almost no one has helped look for him.

    Your Right Hand Thief 2007

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