Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. One who furnishes or puts on shoes; especially, a blacksmith who shoes horses.
Wiktionary
- n. One who fits shoes to the feet.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. One who fits shoes to the feet; one who furnishes or puts on shoes.
Etymologies
- shoe + -er (Wiktionary)
Examples
“During World War I, Enzo was a blacksmith and mule-shoer for the Italian army.”
“Me thinks the braidal shoer cake is for me lassie, Bri!”
“It makes one wonder if the braid for whom the braidal shoer was thrown was the same lady who had the gril.”
“Is it just me is or is the rest of the braidal shoer picture been swirled?”
“In Colorado, rescuers are looking for a snow-shoer who disappeared on a solo outing.”
““Mountain of the Maker,” the artificer par excellence, that is, the blacksmith: it is so called from a legendary shoer of horses and mules, who lived there possibly in the days before”
“Professional careers were generally shoer than business ones.”
“As Benteen neared the stable, he saw the gimpy-legged man holding a bald-faced roan for the shoer.”
“As in Grimm, the three skilled brothers in the French tale are a barber, a horse-shoer, and”
“One description of herb given to a horse prevents the horse-shoer pricking the animal's feet; and another, put into a man's shoes, enables him to travel more than forty miles a day without becoming wearied.”
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chained_bear Yes, farrier is both more common and more correct. I think the writer was just being laid-back, which he has a (bordering on irritating) tendency to do (at least in this book). Oct 27, 2008
dontcry We call the person who shoes our horse a farrier. I like shoer though. I gets right down to business. Reminds me of the time my daughter was very little and couldn't remember the name for ladder. She called it the "climber." Oct 27, 2008
chained_bear One who shoes horses. Usage on calk. Oct 27, 2008