Crossword clues for farrier
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Farrier \Far"ri*er\, n. [OE. farrour, ferrer, OF. ferreor, ferrier, LL. Ferrator, ferrarius equorum, from ferrare to shoe a horse, ferrum a horseshoe, fr. L. ferrum iron. Cf. Ferreous.] 1. A shoer of horses; a veterinary surgeon.
Farrier \Far"ri*er\, v. i.
To practice as a farrier; to carry on the trade of a farrier.
[Obs.]
--Mortimer.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1560s, "one who shoes horses," from Middle French ferrier "blacksmith," from Latin ferrarius "blacksmith," noun use of adjective meaning "of iron," from ferrum "iron" (in Medieval Latin, also "horseshoe"); see ferro-. An earlier form of it in English was ferrer, ferrour "ironsmith" (late 12c. as a surname), from Old French ferreor, from Medieval Latin ferrator "blacksmith."
Wiktionary
n. A person who maintains the health and balance of the horse's feet through the trimming of the hoof and placement of horseshoes. vb. (context intransitive English) To practise as a farrier; to carry on the trade of a farrier.
WordNet
n. a person who shoes horses [syn: horseshoer]
Wikipedia
A farrier is a specialist in equine hoof care, including the trimming and balancing of horses' hooves and the placing of shoes on their hooves, if necessary. A farrier combines some blacksmith's skills (fabricating, adapting, and adjusting metal shoes) with some veterinarian's skills (knowledge of the anatomy and physiology of the lower limb) to care for horses' feet.
Usage examples of "farrier".
What menders could not do with all their draughts and poultices, farmers and farriers, sailors and wranglers, sheepherds and cowherds and goatherds now did with a laying on of hands.
But as they are in general incomparable metalsmiths, they make great farriers when they set their minds to it.
Farriers use it for curing proud flesh in the sores of animals, and when applied to the human skin, the leaves will serve the purpose of a mustard poultice.
A clatter and curses as a jack-lever slipped announced wagonwrights making repairs, and a distant tapping of hammers told of farriers reshoeing horses.
With the two larger bags, I expect you to improve the appearances of your officers, nor will you have to search far, forimpending battle or no impending battlea host of sutlers and merchants have opened for business along both sides of the road just north of the castra, along with armorers, tailors, whores, pimps, gamblers, bootmakers, horse traders, farriers, fortunetellers, and thieves.
Straddling shaggy mountain ponies from near-infancy and hunting cunning mountain beasts from pre-puberty, Ahrmehnee boys and men made excellent hunters and the increasing number of them gifted with mindspeak ability were the best and most highly paid of horsehandlers, farriers and equine leeches.
The farriers, who carried a supply of nails and horseshoes in their saddlebags, began inspecting the hooves of the tired beasts.
It wasn't until a week later, when he was helping a traveling farrier shoe the Connemara pony, that he remarked that he thought he'd pulled something in his left arm and walked back up to the house and when I paid the farrier and walked up there myself, Papa was sitting in his easy chair, dead, with a glass of ouzo beside him.
There were aircraft mechanics and avionic technicians, photographers, small arms artificers, and even one farrier, who had come to flight school from Fort Meyers, Virginia, where he had been in charge of the horses used in the military funerals held half a dozen times a day at Arlington National Cemetery.
Then the Dobsons and The Three Investigators marched back into The Potter's house, with Mr Farrier and his gun bringing up the rear.
Foregate, between the abbey forge and the messuage of Thomas the farrier, together with the garden and field pertaining to it, for an annual rent, during my lifetime, of one rose from the white rosebush growing beside the north wall, to be delivered to me, Judith, upon the day of the translation of Saint Winifred.
He sets his kingdom up to the best bidder, like some scullion farrier selling a glandered horse.
They had been visited by a traveling farrier, who was traveling through the arc of farms, reshoeing as he went.
It was little more than intuition when I decided Sunday morning at breakfast to visit Hughey Dorr, the farrier who had shoed Sparkes's horses two days before the fire.