shoer
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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 A Hundred Fables of La Fontaine by Percy J. Billinghurst
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
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
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
