What's the difference between farrier and tarrier?

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.

Tarrier


Definition:

  • (n.) One who, or that which, tarries.
  • (n.) A kind of dig; a terrier.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Intervention strategies have arisen from the studies which demonstrates that stress in families caring for a relative with schizophrenia can be reduced, leading to not only a smaller risk of relapse in the relative with the illness, but also an improvement in the carer's own mental health status (Tarrier et al.