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Farrier 's tool
Answer for the clue "Farrier 's tool ", 4 letters:
froe
Alternative clues for the word froe
Word definitions for froe in dictionaries
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
Etymology 1 n. a cleaving tool for splitting cask staves and shingles from the block Etymology 2 n. A dirty woman; a slattern; a frow.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Froe \Froe\, n. [See Frow the tool] An iron cleaver or splitting tool; a frow. [U. S.] --Bartlett.
Usage examples of froe.
As if he had heard the words, Froe asserted, "I'm not giving her one copper shard of mine.
A block of wood sat constantly by the fire, the froe stuck through it, ready for anyone with an idle moment to strike off a few more shingles.
The armored spearmen forced citizens away from Garric and Liane the way a froe splits shakes from a cedar log.
I collected the most valuable of the hand tools—the froe and drawing knife by the sawhorse, the foot adze and broadaxe by the sections of split cedar—stowed them in the old hogpen, and walked into the forest.
Faster, even, if Captain Throckmorton might find me some more hands who can tell a froe from a hammer.