farriery
Britishnoun
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Sir Joseph, as all are aware, is descended from an English-Jewish blacksmith who expanded his farriery to an art dealer's suite.
From Time Magazine Archive
For a wage of about $60 a month, Smith slept and ate in horse stalls and struggled to keep up with the farriery needs of fifty-four horses.
From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand
When the small beast was trotted in to the farriery, the grimy giant laughed aloud.
From Recollections With Photogravure Portrait of the Author and a number of Original Letters, of which one by George Meredith and another by Robert Louis Stevenson are reproduced in facsimile by David Christie Murray
Personally, we should think a little more consideration and some elementary knowledge of farriery would have been of more service to the ill-used beasts round Naples than the excellent Pliny’s highly original receipt.
From The Naples Riviera by Herbert M. (Herbert Millingchamp) Vaughan
They were joined directly after by their father, who with the help of Dick had been doing a little amateur farriery work, and freshly nailing a couple of loose shoes on his horse’s hoofs.
From Off to the Wilds Being the Adventures of Two Brothers by Henri Théophile Hildibrand
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