STABLER. One who had the care of csfables, an 0. Fr. word of extensive meaning, defined by Cotgrave, as " a stable, an osterie, an ostellerie, also a sheep-house or fould." In H.R. the word appears in the forms of Le Stabler and De Stabulo. Stahvlaryvs is found in the sense of hostler in M.S. Digby, 113. Bodl. Lib., Oxon.

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