What's the difference between farrier and ferrier?

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.

Ferrier


Definition:

  • (n.) A ferryman.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The only black, female reporter on Florida’s Daytona Beach News-Journal, from 2007 Ferrier was targeted with a stream of abusive letters threatening lynchings and a “race war”, all in the same handwriting and from the same potentially dangerous person.
  • (2) Evacuated to Bournemouth at the outbreak of war, Drummond went to hear the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra and a recital by Kathleen Ferrier, whose biography he was to film 20 years later in what was probably his most successful television production.
  • (3) It offers what Ferrier calls a “hedge of protection”.
  • (4) The SNP’s Margaret Ferrier, the chair of the all-party parliamentary group on democracy and human rights in the Gulf, who coordinated the letter, said: “This is a matter of freedom of speech and expression.
  • (5) Synthons 4 and 9 were coupled with tri-O-acetyl-D-glucal in a boron trifluoride-catalysed "carbon-Ferrier rearrangement" reaction to give C-linked disaccharides i.e., so-called "C-disaccharides" 16 and 17, respectively, in fair yields.
  • (6) Ferrier prototyped the site with four other women using a $3,000 grant for women in news entrepreneurship, and later received $35,000 from the Knight Foundation , which supports quality journalism and media innovation.
  • (7) Ischemic condition was produced by superfusing myocytes with hypoxic substrate-free solutions containing elevated concentrations of K+, H+, and lactate as described by Ferrier et al.
  • (8) Ferrier in 1875 drew non-overlapping circles for face, limbs and tail.
  • (9) His theories were based on detailed clinical observation and were later confirmed by the experimental studies of Fritsch and Hitzig, and by his colleague David Ferrier.
  • (10) Organized by Sir James Crichton-Browne at a little-known mental asylum in northern England, the WRLAMR contains many historically important works in neurology by such landmark figures as Sir David Ferrier and John Hughlings Jackson.
  • (11) Although he was substantially correct, Ferrier's location of auditory cortex was not accepted by his contemporaries, and his observations of cortical deafness were, until recently, discounted by modern researchers.
  • (12) Stories of or by people of colour tend to be targeted the most,” Ferrier says.
  • (13) Ailsa Ferrier works for Artificial Eye Film releasing, one of Britain's leading distributors of arthouse and independent films
  • (14) [2,2-2H2]-2-Deoxy-scyllo-inosose was also synthesized through a modified Ferrier reaction.
  • (15) Afraid for her family, Ferrier left the paper and moved away.
  • (16) Ferrier is also fighting back with TrollBusters , a “rescue service for women journalists, bloggers and publishers”.
  • (17) For two years, Michelle Ferrier was the target of a campaign of intimidation and harassment.
  • (18) David Ferrier was a British physician who studied the localization of function in the cerebral hemispheres during the latter half of the 19th century.
  • (19) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Michelle Ferrier, who is fighting back with TrollBusters , a ‘rescue service for women journalists, bloggers and publishers’.
  • (20) Who reads Susan Ferrier, Maria Edgeworth, Jane Porter and Lady Morgan today, or even Walter Scott?

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