Hōs'tel-er, n.

n. 1. The keeper of a hostel or inn. 2. A student in a hostel, or small unendowed college in Oxford or Cambridge. [Obs.]

Whence we infer them to be no collegates, but hostlers; not in that sense in which the spiteful Papists charged Dr. Cranmer to be one (“an attendant on a stable”), but “such as lived in a learned inn, or hostel, not endowed with revenues.” Fuller.