What's the difference between farrier and farriery?

Farrier


Definition:

  • (n.) A shoer of horses; a veterinary surgeon.
  • (v. i.) To practice as a farrier; to carry on the trade of a farrier.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The son of longtime Rhode Island Republican senator John Chafee, the presidential candidate’s biography brags that he “attended Montana State University horse shoeing school in Bozeman and worked as a farrier at harness racing tracks for seven years”.
  • (2) The correction of most foot problems requires an appreciation of a multitude of factors and a thorough knowledge of farrier science.
  • (3) Farrier's Formula feed supplement was added to the diet of 18 horses with two types of hoof horn defects.
  • (4) Yet Jennifer once had the waywardness of her daughter Kate, and the romantic spirit of her youngest, Alice, an engineer who is happily married to a farrier .
  • (5) He became farrier after years of apprenticeships at Newark and Retford.
  • (6) The Horse and Farrier pub, basking in the embrace of Saddleback mountain, is the campaign headquarters for Friends of Blencathra (which is the mountain's proper name).
  • (7) In 1783 the first edition of his book "Every man his own farrier" was published.
  • (8) Even though the farriers and cowleeches had little knowledge, and occasionally less ethics, most performed as best they could.

Farriery


Definition:

  • (n.) The art of shoeing horses.
  • (n.) The art of preventing, curing, or mitigating diseases of horses and cattle; the veterinary art.
  • (n.) The place where a smith shoes horses.

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