"hostle" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "hostles",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "hostling",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "hostled",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "hostled",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "hostle (third-person singular simple present hostles, present participle hostling, simple past and past participle hostled)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "American English",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Rail transportation",
          "orig": "en:Rail transportation",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              63,
              70
            ]
          ],
          "ref": "1924, Decisions of the United States Railroad Labor Board, page 732:",
          "text": "The employees contend that inasmuch as there are seven engines hostled at Sleepy Eye within a 12-hour period, a hostler from the ranks of the firemen must be assigned […]",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To maintain (a locomotive or other large engine); to do the work of a hostler."
      ],
      "id": "en-hostle-en-verb--BMf2vo6",
      "links": [
        [
          "rail transport",
          "rail transport"
        ],
        [
          "maintain",
          "maintain"
        ],
        [
          "locomotive",
          "locomotive"
        ],
        [
          "hostler",
          "hostler"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(US, rail transport) To maintain (a locomotive or other large engine); to do the work of a hostler."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "rail-transport",
        "railways",
        "transport"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "hostle"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "hostles",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "hostling",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "hostled",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "hostled",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "hostle (third-person singular simple present hostles, present participle hostling, simple past and past participle hostled)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "American English",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English verbs",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned",
        "en:Rail transportation"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              63,
              70
            ]
          ],
          "ref": "1924, Decisions of the United States Railroad Labor Board, page 732:",
          "text": "The employees contend that inasmuch as there are seven engines hostled at Sleepy Eye within a 12-hour period, a hostler from the ranks of the firemen must be assigned […]",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To maintain (a locomotive or other large engine); to do the work of a hostler."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "rail transport",
          "rail transport"
        ],
        [
          "maintain",
          "maintain"
        ],
        [
          "locomotive",
          "locomotive"
        ],
        [
          "hostler",
          "hostler"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(US, rail transport) To maintain (a locomotive or other large engine); to do the work of a hostler."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "rail-transport",
        "railways",
        "transport"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "hostle"
}