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Farriery   Listen
noun
Farriery  n.  
1.
The art of shoeing horses.
2.
The art of preventing, curing, or mitigating diseases of horses and cattle; the veterinary art.
3.
The place where a smith shoes horses.






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"Farriery" Quotes from Famous Books



... a new game at the farriery opposite. She spent entire days swinging on the shafts of the wagons. She concealed herself, with her troop of followers, at the back of the dark court, redly lit by the forge, and then would make sudden rushes with screams ...
— L'Assommoir • Emile Zola

... Bracken's Farriery improv'd: A Compleat Treatise of the Art, with an Account of the Drugs, &c. used therein, J. ...
— The Annual Catalogue: Numb. II. (1738) • Various

... any other single volume which I have met with, the mental furniture of an average-educated man of the time. There are stories in prose and verse, collections of proverbs, a dissertation on Horticulture, a dissertation on Farriery, a treatise of Confession, a Book of Education, a Book of Courtesy, a Book of "the Whole Duty" of Man; mercantile entries, discourses of arithmetic, recipes, prescriptions, marvels of science or pseudo-science, conundrums, tables of the assize of food; the laws respecting the sale ...
— Froude's Essays in Literature and History - With Introduction by Hilaire Belloc • James Froude

... am a workman—though that is not the only sort of work I do. I am an Australian, and, as we have to move about fast, we are all trained to farriery and such mechanics as come into travel—I am ...
— The Lair of the White Worm • Bram Stoker



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