Crossword clues for currier
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Currier \Cur"ri*er\ (k?"r?-?r), n. [From 1st Curry.] One who curries and dresses leather, after it is tanned.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., "one who dresses and colors leather," from Old French corier, from Latin coriarius "tanner, currier," from corium "hide, leather, skin" (see corium).
Wiktionary
n. A specialist in the leather processing industry.
Wikipedia
A currier is a specialist in the leather processing industry. After the tanning process, the currier applies techniques of dressing, finishing and colouring to the tanned hide to make it strong, flexible and waterproof. The leather is stretched and burnished to produce a uniform thickness and suppleness, and dyeing and other chemical finishes give the leather its desired colour.
After currying, the leather is then ready to pass to the fashioning trades such as saddlery, bridlery, shoemaking and glovemaking.
A currier is a specialist in the leather processing industry.
Currier may also refer to:
People:
- Currier (surname)
Other:
- USS Currier (DE-700), a destroyer escort
- Currier House (disambiguation), various buildings
- Currier Museum of Art, Manchester, New Hampshire
Currier is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
- Althea Currier (born 1942), popular glamour model
- Andy Currier, British rugby league footballer of the 1980s and 90s
- Bill Currier (born 1955), former American football defensive back
- Bill Currier (baseball), American college baseball coach
- Bob Currier (born 1949), retired Canadian professional ice hockey player
- Charles Warren Currier (1857–1918), first Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Matanzas
- Chester Currier (1946–2007), newspaper and magazine columnist
- Frank Currier (1857–1928), American actor and director
- Frank Dunklee Currier (1853–1921), U.S. Representative from New Hampshire
- James Currier (athlete) (20th century), English footballer
- James Currier (21st century), American tech entrepreneur
- John Currier (21st century), United States Coast Guard admiral
- Joseph Merrill Currier (1820–1884), Canadian member of parliament and businessman
- Lyman Currier (born 1994), American freestyle skier
- Moody Currier (1806–1898), lawyer and banker
- Nathan Currier (born 1960), American composer
- Nathaniel Currier (1813–1888), American lithographer
- Richard C. Currier (1892–1984), American film editor
- Sebastian Currier (born 1959), American composer
Usage examples of "currier".
A workman, a currier, named Moulins, who had taken refuge in one of these shot-riddled cellars, saw through the cellar air-hole a passer-by, who had been wounded in the thigh by a bullet, sit down on the pavement with the death rattle in his throat, and lean against a shop.
Then, today, while I was trying to clean up a little (mostly I'm too exhausted and dispirited to even try), I broke my mother's favorite plate, the one with the Currier & Ives sledding scene on it.
And there are those Ramen-Winhomes, Curriers, Keepers-who are not apt for the rigors of Cording or Maneing.
I resolved to become one, but instead of going backwards and forwards with a goat-skin on my shoulders, I went down to the curriers, and selected the soft skin of the young ox which hangs above me, fitted it to my shoulders, and filling it at the river, marched up to the bazaar.
He carried his bag across the parched lawn, between the beds of Beauty Bush and forced gladioli, and let himself into the neat spare double room with the armchair, the bedside table, the Currier and Ives print, the chest of drawers and the brown plastic ash-tray that are standard motel equipment all over America.
If the tragedy of the ill-fated Lexington did nothing else, it gave the country the remarkable talents of Nathaniel Currier, who in seventeen years would join forces with another artist/lithographer, James Merritt Ives, to produce evocative color lithographs that became the illustrated soul of early America.
John Currier in “Historical Sketch of Ship Building on the Merrimac River” claims that ships constructed in Amesbury at the time of the Essex were “built almost entirely of oak.