stableman

From stable + -man.

stableman (plural stablemen)

1. A person employed to take care of horses in a stable.

   Hypernyms: worker < person

   Coordinate terms: stable girl, liveryman

   Near-synonyms: stablehand, stable boy, groom (all traditionally loosely synonymous)

   • 1851, Harry Hieover, The Pocket and the Stud, page 93:

     In fact, a horse that has been accustomed to be attended by a stableman will want to have little niceties done to him that a hawbuck of a groom never thinks of doing.

• Traditionally stable boy has been more common and neither term has been rigorously reserved to an age range.