Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A ferryman.
  • noun An obsolete spelling of farrier.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun A ferryman.

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  • noun obsolete a ferryman

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Examples

  • It’s time to tap the trees, site your gun, feed the bees, clean the pig house, call the ferrier, split the kindling, prune the trees, or plant the corn.

    Making An Agrarian Family Calendar Herrick Kimball 2006

  • The one time I ever negotiated sort of thing with any success was this horse ferrier we had who called me "princess".

    Quick Hit: Waiter Weirdness - Feministing 2008

  • Just today here in Shenandoah County I heard it twice in a half-hour conversation, once where it meant disbelief response to a joke - the ferrier didn't believe the horse-trainer feeds them mustard oil, and once where it meant non-comprehension.

    languagehat.com: DO WHAT? 2004

  • Look how easy it was to subvert the interplanetary ferrier we used, without ever telling him what a treasure was at stake.

    A Circus of Hells Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1969

  • Sponsorships are $500 a year, a price that merely covers the cost of ferrier work, spring and fall vaccinations and some hay.

    GJSentinel - Latest News Headlines 2010

  • He said he had been around them his entire life and is a ferrier ..

    OnlineAthens: Top Headlines 2009

  • _farrier_ for _ferrier_, as it was formerly written, from

    The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 05 Miscellaneous Pieces Samuel Johnson 1746

  • It is also known that Ammon has quietly purchased certain spacecraft supplies and engaged a disreputable interplanetary ferrier to take them to the outermost member of this system and leave them there at a specific place, in a cave marked by a small radio beacon that will self-activate when a vessel passes near. "

    A Circus of Hells Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1969

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