FARRIER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does farrier mean? 

• FARRIER (noun)
  The noun FARRIER has 1 sense:

1. a person who shoes horses

  Familiarity information: FARRIER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FARRIER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A person who shoes horses

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

farrier; horseshoer

Hypernyms ("farrier" is a kind of...):

blacksmith (a smith who forges and shapes iron with a hammer and anvil)

 Context examples 

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

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

There were three sisters yonder, the daughters of a farrier, and, by these ten finger-bones! a man might ride for a long June day and never set eyes upon such maidens.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He sets his kingdom up to the best bidder, like some scullion farrier selling a glandered horse.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)