Now Sc. Forms: 5 stabyler, (stabyller), 6 stabulare, stabillar, 7 staibler. [a. OF. establier, f. estable: see STABLE sb. and -ER2. Cf. L. stabulārius.] A stable-keeper.

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14[?].  Nom., in Wr.-Wülcker, 684/41. Hic stabularius, a stabyler.

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1483.  Cath. Angl., 357/2. A Stabyller, stabularius.

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1508.  Extracts Burgh Rec. Edin. (1869), I. 117. That all stabulares within this burgh haif thair stabilles weill and sufficientlie furnist with hek [and] manyger. Ibid. (1529) (1871), II. 6. All maner of stabillar within this burgh.

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1611.  Extracts Rec. Convent. Burghs Scot. (1870), II. 317. His maiesteis lieges wer gritlie abusit be the staiblers.

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1676.  Row, Contn. Blair’s Autobiogr., ix. (1848), 147. A pursuivant calling to a stabler, to provide against to-morrow morning two horses to him.

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1722.  De Foe, Col. Jack (1840), 109. The stabler, so they call the people at Edinburgh that take in horses to keep.

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1821.  Blackw. Mag., IX. 331. The humble dwelling of a stabler in the Grassmarket.

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a. 1864.  Hawthorne, Amer. Note-bks. (1879), II. 173. They appear to be busy men, these stablers.

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