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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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
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 Elizur Wright
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 John Victor Lacroix
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
"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 Burt L. Standish
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