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Borrowed from Middle French ferrier, from Old French ferrier, from Latin ferrarius, from ferrum (“iron”).
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farrier (plural farriers)
- A person who maintains the health and balance of horses' feet through the trimming of the hoof and fitting of horseshoes.
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person who trims and shoes horses' hooves
- Albanian: mbathtar (sq) m
- Arabic: بَيْطَار m (bayṭār)
- Armenian: պայտար (hy) (paytar), նալբանդ (hy) (nalband)
- Azerbaijani: nalbənd
- Bulgarian: налбантин m (nalbantin)
- Catalan: ferrador m, ferrer (ca) m
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 蹄鐵匠/蹄铁匠 (títiějiàng)
- Czech: podkovář m
- Danish: beslagsmed c
- Dutch: hoefsmid (nl) m
- Esperanto: hufumisto
- Estonian: hobuserautaja (et)
- Finnish: kengitysseppä (fi), hevosenkengittäjä (fi), kengittäjä (fi)
- French: maréchal-ferrant (fr) m, maréchale-ferrante (fr) f
- Galician: ferrador (gl) m, ferradora f
- German: Hufschmied (de) m, Hufschmiedin (de) f, Hufner (de) m, Hufnerin f, Hufbeschlagschmied m, Hufbeschlagschmiedin f, Beschlagschmied m, Beschlagschmiedin f
- Greek: πεταλωτής (el) m (petalotís)
- Gujarati: નાલબંદ (nālband)
- Hebrew: מפרזל סוסים
- Hungarian: patkolókovács (hu)
- Icelandic: járningamaður m
- Irish: crúdóir m, fairéir m
- Italian: maniscalco (it) m, maniscalca f, fabbro ferraio m, magnano (it) m
- Japanese: 装蹄師 (ja) (そうていし, sōteishi)
- Kurdish:
- Northern Kurdish: nalbend (ku) m or f, beytar (ku) m or f
- Macedonian: потко́вувач m (potkóvuvač), на́лбат m (nálbat)
- Maltese: nagħgħâl
- Maori: kaihaeana hōiho
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: hovslager m, beslagsmed m
- Nynorsk: hovslagar m, hóvslagar m
- Persian: نعلبند (fa) (na'lband)
- Polish: podkuwacz (pl) m
- Portuguese: ferrador (pt) m, ferradora f
- Romanian: potcovar (ro) m
- Russian: кузне́ц (ru) m (kuznéc), конова́л (ru) m (konovál)
- Spanish: herrador m, herradora f
- Swedish: hovslagare (sv) c, hovslagerska c
- Turkish: nalbant (tr)
- Volapük: (♂♀) safaferan (vo), (♂) hisafaferan, (♀) jisafaferan
- Welsh: ffariar m
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farrier (third-person singular simple present farriers, present participle farriering, simple past and past participle farriered)
- (intransitive) To practise as a farrier; to carry on the trade of a farrier.
1707, J[ohn] Mortimer, The Whole Art of Husbandry; or, The Way of Managing and Improving of Land. […], 2nd edition, London: […] J[ohn] H[umphreys] for H[enry] Mortlock […], and J[onathan] Robinson […], published 1708, →OCLC:though there are many Pretenders to the Art of Farriering and Cow-leeching , yet many of them are very ignorant , especially in the Countrie
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