General attributive, esp. in palfreyman.

= horse-boy, n.

= palfrenier, n.

A man who attends to horses at an inn; a stableman, a groom.

A stableman or groom at an inn. Also figurative.

= groom, n.1 5.

A person charged with looking after horses; a groom.

The stables belonging to a royal or princely household; the body of officers in charge of the stables. Obsolete.

A boy employed to do menial or servile work; spec. a stable boy, a groom, a postilion. Cf. jockey, n.

A boy employed to attend to horses; a stable-boy. (Often contemptuous.)

A servant or attendant to a knight or man-at-arms; esp. one who is a member of a man-at-arms's lance (lance, n.1 4b) and is armed with a custil or…

A female ostler.

a stable boy, a groom.

In parts of Africa and Asia, and esp. in India, a servant who attends to horses, a groom; also, an attendant who follows on foot a mounted…

A servant who attends to horses. (Until 17th cent. only a contextual use of sense 3; now the current sense.)

a groom who attends to a pad (sense 2).

a boy or man employed in or about a stable.

one who is employed in a stable to groom, feed and otherwise look after the horses.

Originally: (the title of) any of several high-ranking officers of the Persian royal household. Later also: a groom, or a stable boy in Persia…

One who straps or grooms horses. Chiefly Australian in later use.

A stable-groom of any age; also, a female one.

= stable-boy n.

A Chinese groom, stable boy, or coachman.

A groom or stableboy. U.S. slang.