What's the difference between farrier and furrier?

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.

Furrier


Definition:

  • (n.) A dealer in furs; one who makes or sells fur goods.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Our study suggests that furriers can develop acute and chronic respiratory difficulties frequently associated with specific indicators of atopy.
  • (2) The furriers demonstrated significantly lower mean measured pre-shift values for FVC and FEV25 (P less than 0.05) when compared with the predicted.
  • (3) Increased total IgE was found in 9.5% of the furriers.
  • (4) A high prevalence of acute symptoms during the work shift was found among furriers.
  • (5) Occupational groups, such as reindeer-breeders, domestic servants in the tent of skins, hunters, fur-farmers, furriers) have been identified to be mostly at high risk for Echinococcus infection.
  • (6) A higher prevalence of all chronic respiratory symptoms was found among furriers when compared with controls; these differences were statistically significant for nasal catarrh (p less than 0.05) and sinusitis (p less than 0.01).
  • (7) It is recommended to accept a basalioma as occupational cancer in case of contact with carcinogens in furriers.
  • (8) A group of 31 females who did not work in the furrier industry also was included in the study as the control group.
  • (9) A higher prevalence of chronic respiratory symptoms was found among the furriers than among the controls.
  • (10) Before the wall went up, he made regular trips to the West with his mother, a furrier, when she needed to pick up Persian furs that were unavailable in the GDR.
  • (11) Statistically significant mean reductions in lung function over the work shift were recorded in furriers for forced vital capacity (FVC), -4.1%; one-second forced expiratory volume (FEV1), -5.2%; and flow rate at 50% vital capacity (FEF50%), -6.3%.
  • (12) Born in Shoreditch in the East End of London, to Edward, a furrier, and Maud (nee Gibbs), a machinist, Henry was one of six children.
  • (13) A group of 54 women employed in the fur processing industry and a control group of 31 non-furriers were examined.
  • (14) Our data suggest that furriers are at risk of developing both acute and chronic respiratory symptoms as well as ventilatory capacity impairment as a result of occupational exposure.
  • (15) Most of the symptomatic furriers complained of acute symptoms during their work shifts.
  • (16) The highest prevalence in furriers was found for chronic cough (50%), sinusitis (30%), followed by dyspnea (25%), nasal catarrh (20%) and occupational asthma (5%).
  • (17) Among the furriers, two (5.0%) had symptoms characteristic of occupational asthma.
  • (18) The risk of getting a basalioma was significantly higher in the group of furriers than in the control population.
  • (19) Among the furriers, the highest prevalence of respiratory symptoms was recorded for chronic cough in 20 workers (50.0%), followed by sinusitis in 12 (30.0%), dyspnea in 10 (25.0%), and nasal catarrh in 8 workers (20.0%).
  • (20) Furriers demonstrated significantly lower mean Monday preshift measurements for FVC and flow rate at 25% (FEF25%) (p less than 0.05) when compared with those predicted.

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