shoer

American  

[shoo-er] / ˈʃu ər /

noun

1. a person who shoes horses or other animals.

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shoer British  

/ ˈʃuːə /

noun

1. rare a person who shoes horses; farrier

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Etymology

Origin of shoer

before 900; Old English scōere shoemaker (not recorded in ME); see shoe, -er ¹

Example Sentences

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

"Grody took him to the shoer, that's all."

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