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Farrier
1911 Encyclopedia Britannica
or and Farriery (from Lat. ferrarius, a blacksmith, ferrum, iron). Farrier is the name given generally either to the professional shoer of horses or in a more extended sense to a practitioner of the veterinary art; and farriery is the term for his business. Primarily the art of farriery is identical with that of the blacksmith, in so far as he makes and fixes shoes on horses (see Horse-Shoes); he is liable in law for negligence, as one who holds himself out as skilled; and he has a lien on the animal for his expenses. William the Conqueror is supposed to have introduced horse-shoeing into England, and the art had an important place through the middle ages, the days of chivalry, and the later developments of equitation. In modern times it has been closely allied with the general progress in veterinary science, and in the knowledge of the anatomy and physiology of the horse's foot and hoof.
See Fisher, The Farrier (1893); Lungwitz, Text-Book of Horseshoeing (Eng. trans., 1898).
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Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Farrier'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/bri/f/farrier.html. 1910.
