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Medieval occupations (was Re: spelling questions ...)
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lugnet.castle
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Mon, 10 Jan 2000 23:51:02 GMT
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In lugnet.castle, John DiRienzo writes:
> But aren't a farrier and a smith one and the same?
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 saddles, bridles and other leatherwork. A town or a city would have
a farrier, while a village isn't likely to. In a small village, most people
would shoe their own horses (if they even had them) and oxen (if they
bothered). Or as often happened, someone in the village would have a knack
for it, and people would get Farmer Greg to shoe their horses, in exchange for
(whatever). Barter was big back then.
> Were there ferries in the days of Castles? Just wondering.
Yup. :) Ferries were common across rivers too deep to ford with a wagon, and
where there wasn't enough traffic to warrant a bridge (or stone to make one).
Odds are a village wouldn't have one - villages by a river would tend to be on
one side or the other. Towns would be the most likely to have a ferry, and
cities would almost certainly build bridges.
James
http://www.shades-of-night.com/lego/
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 | | Re: Medieval occupations (was Re: spelling questions ...)
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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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| ~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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