Other forms: farriers
A farrier is somebody who fits iron shoes to horses. Call the farrier, the farrier's visit, a qualified farrier.
The job is trimming and balancing the hoof as much as nailing the shoe, and a bad job lames the horse. In Britain it is a protected trade, and shoeing a horse without qualification is an offence.
1nounfarrierSomebody who fits iron shoes to horses.
“The horse had lost a shoe, so we called the farrier out to the yard.”
farrier is a craftsman.
Old French ferrier comes from Latin ferrum, iron.
Latin
ferrārius
Old French
ferrier
Middle French
ferrier
English, today
farrier
Built from
Middle French ferrier, from Old French ferrier, from Latin ferrārius, from ferrum (“iron”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA