Word Meanings - STABLER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A stable keeper. De Foe.

Related words: (words related to STABLER)

• STABLENESS
  The quality or state of being stable, or firmly established; stability.
• STABLEBOY; STABLEMAN
  A boy or man who attends in a stable; a groom; a hostler.
• KEEPER
  1. One who, or that which, keeps; one who, or that which, holds or has possession of anything. 2. One who retains in custody; one who has the care of a prison and the charge of prisoners. 3. One who has the care, custody, or superintendence of
• STABLE STAND
  The position of a man who is found at his standing in the forest, with a crossbow or a longbow bent, ready to shoot at a deer, or close by a tree with greyhounds in a leash ready to slip; -- one of the four presumptions that a man intends stealing
• KEEPERSHIP
  The office or position of a keeper. Carew.
• STABLER
  A stable keeper. De Foe.
• STABLE
  1. Firmly established; not easily moved, shaken, or overthrown; fixed; as, a stable government. In this region of chance, . . . where nothing is stable. Rogers. 2. Steady in purpose; constant; firm in resolution; not easily diverted from a purpose;
• POSTABLE
  Capable of being carried by, or as by, post. W. Montagu.
• INTESTABLE
  Not capable of making a will; not legally qualified or competent to make a testament. Blackstone.
• CONSTABLESS
  The wife of a constable.
• OUTKEEPER
  An attachment to a surveyor's compass for keeping tally in chaining.
• INNKEEPER
  An innholder.
• CONTESTABLE
  Capable of being contested; debatable.
• POUNDKEEPER; POUND-KEEPER
  The keeper of a pound.
• THERMOSTABLE
  Capable of being heated to or somewhat above 55º C. without loss of special properties; -- said of immune substances, etc.
• INTASTABLE
  Incapable of being tasted; tasteless; unsavory. Grew.
• CROWKEEPER
  A person employed to scare off crows; hence, a scarecrow. Scaring the ladies like a crowkeeper. Shak.
• UNCONTESTABLE
  Incontestable.
• BOOKKEEPER
  One who keeps accounts; one who has the charge of keeping the books and accounts in an office.
• ACCOSTABLE
  Approachable; affable. Hawthorne.
• SHOPKEEPER
  A trader who sells goods in a shop, or by retail; -- in distinction from one who sells by wholesale. Addison.
• HOUSEKEEPER
  1. One who occupies a house with his family; a householder; the master or mistress of a family. Locke. 2. One who does, or oversees, the work of keeping house; as, his wife is a good housekeeper; often, a woman hired to superintend the servants
• DETESTABLE
  Worthy of being detested; abominable; extremely hateful; very odious; deserving abhorrence; as, detestable vices. Thou hast defiled my sanctuary will all thy detestable things, and with all thine abominations. Ezek. v. 11. Syn. -- Abominable;