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

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Example Sentences

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shoer

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 Percy J. Billinghurst

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 Harvey Riley

I'm a shoer of horses, a forger of iron, a worker in steel.

From The Ten-foot Chain or, Can Love Survive the Shackles? A Unique Symposium by Achmed Abdullah

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

From Rational Horse-Shoeing by John E. Russell

"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 Jeffery Farnol

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