Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A ferryman.
- noun An obsolete spelling of
farrier .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A ferryman.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun obsolete a
ferryman
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Examples
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It’s time to tap the trees, site your gun, feed the bees, clean the pig house, call the ferrier, split the kindling, prune the trees, or plant the corn.
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The one time I ever negotiated sort of thing with any success was this horse ferrier we had who called me "princess".
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Just today here in Shenandoah County I heard it twice in a half-hour conversation, once where it meant disbelief response to a joke - the ferrier didn't believe the horse-trainer feeds them mustard oil, and once where it meant non-comprehension.
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Look how easy it was to subvert the interplanetary ferrier we used, without ever telling him what a treasure was at stake.
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Sponsorships are $500 a year, a price that merely covers the cost of ferrier work, spring and fall vaccinations and some hay.
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He said he had been around them his entire life and is a ferrier ..
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_farrier_ for _ferrier_, as it was formerly written, from
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It is also known that Ammon has quietly purchased certain spacecraft supplies and engaged a disreputable interplanetary ferrier to take them to the outermost member of this system and leave them there at a specific place, in a cave marked by a small radio beacon that will self-activate when a vessel passes near. "
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