farriery
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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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
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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
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Always engaged in rough exercises and perilous journeys, they have learned a kind of farriery and a simple system of surgery.
From Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah & Meccah — Volume 2 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir
These, with Ruff's Guide, the Racing Calendar, and a few volumes on farriery, supplied Mr. Armstrong's literary necessities.
From The Lovels of Arden by Braddon, M. E. (Mary Elizabeth)
I was, of course, kept sedulously at work at our business, and, though liking it even less than farriery, learned it well enough.
From Hugh Wynne, Free Quaker by Mitchell, S. Weir (Silas Weir)
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