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

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.

"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

"If that rascally shoer has blundered in his work he'll not get another chance at you, boy," Merriwell declared.

From Frank Merriwell's Races by Standish, Burt L.

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

We know of a shoer in Worcester County, Massachusetts, who has a wide local reputation for "doctoring" weak knees.

From Rational Horse-Shoeing by Russell, John E.