shoer

Example Sentences

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"If that rascally shoer has blundered in his work he'll not get another chance at you, boy," Merriwell declared.

From Frank Merriwell's Races by Standish, Burt L.

"How comes it then that I find you in the dawn, wet with rain, buffeted by wind, and—most of all—a shoer of horses?"

From The Broad Highway by Farnol, Jeffery

In very many cases a good practical shoer can remove the trouble by proper paring and shoeing.

From The Mule A Treatise on the Breeding, Training, and Uses to Which He May Be Put by Riley, Harvey

Farrier is the name given generally either to the professional shoer of horses or in a more extended sense to a practitioner of the veterinary art; and farriery is the term for his business.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 2 "Fairbanks, Erastus" to "Fens" by Various

The horse, an animal with brains enough, Replied, 'Sirs, you yourselves may read my name; My shoer round my heel hath writ the same.'

From Fables of La Fontaine — a New Edition, with Notes by Wright, Elizur