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| | | (...) Neg, as the other James pointed out, a Ferrier is someone who shoes horses...like my wife's old boss in Victoria. (25 years ago, 10-Jan-00, to lugnet.castle)
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| | | | | Re: A village challenge and questions ... —Fraser Lovatt
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| | | | | (...) No -- Mike is correct. A farrier shoes horses, a ferrier operates a ferry. Check out Websters -- or dictionary.com F (25 years ago, 10-Jan-00, to lugnet.castle)
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| | | | | | | Re: A village challenge and questions ... —James Brown
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| | | | | | (...) Interesting... dictionary.com cites Websters (1996 ed) as it's source for 'ferrier', but m-w.com has no entry. There's also no source/etemolgy at dictionary.com... Neat. I wonder what the hardcopy of Webster's says... James (URL) (25 years ago, 10-Jan-00, to lugnet.castle)
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| | | | | | | | spelling questions ... —John DiRienzo
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| | | | | | ~My~ Webster's didn't have either, and neither did M-W.com, which is why I asked what the words meant. James Brown had the best guesses, I think - they were the same as my guesses, misspelled words of similar meanings. I had guessed cobbler from (...) (25 years ago, 10-Jan-00, to lugnet.castle)
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| | | | | | | | Medieval occupations (was Re: spelling questions ...) —James Brown
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| | | | | | | (...) Nope. A farrier is different. A smith will quite happily make horseshoes, but will tell you where to go if you ask him to put them on your horse. ;) (Unless, of course, he's also a farrier) A farrier would shoe horses, as well as repair (...) (25 years ago, 10-Jan-00, to lugnet.castle)
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| | | | | | | | | Re: Medieval occupations (was Re: spelling questions ...) —Mike Stanley
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| | | | | | | | (...) There you go - the connection I wasn't making. The difference between producing the thing made of iron and actually putting it to use - shoeing the horse, and all the doo-dads you'd need for the horse, sounds like. Never thought of it that (...) (25 years ago, 11-Jan-00, to lugnet.castle)
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| | | | | | | | Re: spelling questions ... —Mike Stanley
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| | | | | | (...) Yes. Farrier is an alteration of a Middle English and French word that meant blacksmith. Can't really imagine a smith making a living solely on horse shoes, but then again, in a large city that might support multiple smiths, maybe it could (...) (25 years ago, 11-Jan-00, to lugnet.castle)
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| | | | | | | | Re: spelling questions ... —James Powell
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| | | | | | | (...) Used to be. Now, the Farrier (and I was wrong, it is farrier, not ferrier) is a horse of a different shoe :). I know a Farrier who I doubt is a blacksmith (my wife's old boss). I know blacksmiths (self proclamed) who would be frightened out of (...) (25 years ago, 11-Jan-00, to lugnet.castle)
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| | | | | | | | Re: spelling questions ... —Matthew Miller
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| | | | | | (...) Farrier, though, comes from the middle english "ferrour". Iron is definitely involved. (25 years ago, 11-Jan-00, to lugnet.castle)
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| | | | | | | | Re: spelling questions ... —Mike Stanley
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| | | | | | (...) Yeah, I think I mentioned the ME in another post. 'Course, it came through French also, so seeing the spelling get fowled up isn't any big surprise, is it? :) (25 years ago, 12-Jan-00, to lugnet.castle)
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| | | | | Re: A village challenge and questions ... —Mike Stanley
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| | | | (...) Well, a fErrier is someone who maintains or operates a ferry. ferrier \Fer"ri*er\, n. A ferryman. --Calthrop A fArrier is someone who shoes horses. Both probably look the same, even going a ways back, but I would guess that ferrier is (...) (25 years ago, 10-Jan-00, to lugnet.castle)
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| | | | | | Re: A village challenge and questions ... —Lindsay Frederick Braun
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| | | | (...) True. Fero/ferre is also a verb, whereas "ferrum" is a noun. As an indicator, the periodic table's entry for iron is still (and will always be) Fe. (...) There's also a few others interesting Latin metallurgical terms running around our world (...) (25 years ago, 22-Jan-00, to lugnet.castle)
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