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far·ri·er

(făr′ē-ər)

One who shoes horses.

[Obsolete French ferrier, from Latin ferrārius, of iron, blacksmith, from ferrum, iron.]

far′ri·er·y n.

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farrier

(ˈfærɪə)

1. (Veterinary Science) a person who shoes horses

2. (Veterinary Science) archaic another name for veterinary surgeon

3. (Military) military a noncommissioned officer who looks after horses

[C16: from Old French ferrier, from Latin ferrārius smith, from ferrum iron]

Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014

far•ri•er

(ˈfær i ər)

n.

Chiefly Brit. blacksmith.

[1555–65; variant of ferrier < Middle French, Old French < Latin ferrārius= ferr(um) iron + -ārius -ary]

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Noun

farrier - a person who shoes horses

horseshoer

blacksmith - a smith who forges and shapes iron with a hammer and anvil

Translations

πεταλωτής

maréchal-ferrant

járningamaður

nalbant

farrier

[ˈfærɪəʳ] N (esp Brit) → herrador(a) m/f

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

farrier

[ˈfæriə^r] n → maréchal-ferrant mfar-right [ˌfɑː^rˈraɪt] adj
a far-right group → un groupe d'extrême droitefar-sighted [ˌfɑː^rˈsaɪtɪd] adj

(= prudent) [person] → prévoyant(e); [decision, legislation] → prévoyant(e)

(= long-sighted) → hypermétrope

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

farrier

n → Hufschmied m

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

farrier

[ˈfærɪəʳ] n → maniscalco

Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

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"Was it a red Durham?" said the farrier, taking up the thread of discourse after the lapse of a few minutes.

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There was now riding off in all directions to the doctor's, to the farrier's, and no doubt to Squire Gordon's, to let him know about his son.

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"You are a cursed emigrant," cried a farrier, making at him in a furious manner through the press, hammer in hand; "and you are a cursed aristocrat!"

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Finally, although he was sufficiently acquainted with the customs of society and with the laws of politeness, to which he conformed as rigidly as if they had been military regulations; though he had real mental power, both natural and acquired; and although he had mastered the art of handling men, the science of tactics, the theory of sabre play, and the mysteries of the farrier's craft, his learning had been prodigiously neglected.

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I remember a farrier, who provoked one of them, by asking her when the time she had bargained with the devil for would be out; and within three months from that very day one of his best cows was drowned.

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And the larger sheet, which had enclosed the rest, seemed by its first cramp line, "To poultice chestnut mare" -- a farrier's bill!

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He is a veterinary surgeon, a farrier, and horsebreaker.

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I have cross-examined these men, one of them a hard-headed countryman, one a farrier, and one a moorland farmer, who all tell the same story of this dreadful apparition, exactly corresponding to the hell-hound of the legend.

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In knowledge of horseflesh he was almost equal to a farrier, in stable learning he surpassed his own head groom, and in gluttony not a pig on his estate was a match for him.

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After a while they marched off, but they saluted us with five arrows at their parting, which wounded a horse so that it disabled him, and we left him the next day, poor creature, in great need of a good farrier. We saw no more arrows or Tartars that time.

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Then I will tell of my terrors -- yes, sire, of my terrors -- when, at the house of Colonel Windham, a farrier who came to shoe our horses declared they had been shod in the north."

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Murray was, by all accounts, a blustering, roystering, country squire: a devoted fox-hunter, a skilful horse-jockey and farrier, an active, practical farmer, and a hearty bon vivant.