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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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(...) I saw part of an Arctic set commercial this weekend. Timbo (25 years ago, 10-Jan-00, to lugnet.castle)
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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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(...) 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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(...) A crossroads may also be the center of town, but that would probably make the town less of the "backwards village" Pawel seems to want. (...) This is highly terrain dependant. Watermills would probably be more likely, as a windmill would (...) (25 years ago, 10-Jan-00, to lugnet.castle)
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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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I've been inspired, recently, by many original creations to experiment with mixing parts from other themes to create unique characters and/or armies. I'm hoping to get some feedback about the appropriateness (is that a word?!) of using the following (...) (25 years ago, 10-Jan-00, to lugnet.castle)
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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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I personally have an army of forest elves and I don't use the regular castle swords for them. I use the pirate's cutlasses, just because they look better in the hands of an elf than in the hands of a charging armored knight. I'm also using the (...) (25 years ago, 10-Jan-00, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) I can't really think of a western equivalent of the japanese helmet, but I wouldn't let that stop me if I liked it. It's purpose is the same as the western helmet: save one's brains from a metal weapon. (...) nobleman's (...) Too obviously (...) (25 years ago, 11-Jan-00, to lugnet.castle)
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