shoer
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of shoer
before 900; Old English scōere shoemaker (not recorded in ME); see shoe, -er 1
Example Sentences
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"Grody took him to the shoer, that's all."
From Frank Merriwell's Races by Standish, Burt L.
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 A Hundred Fables of La Fontaine by Billinghurst, Percy J.
"Did you take him to the shoer the first thing this morning and have his feet examined, as I directed?"
From Frank Merriwell's Races by Standish, Burt L.
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
A great deal depends on the judgment of the shoer to meet the conditions presented, depending on the degree of the convexity and strength of the sole.
From Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1 by Lacroix, John Victor
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