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

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

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

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

From Frank Merriwell's Races by Burt L. Standish

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

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