Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One who furnishes or puts on shoes; especially, a blacksmith who shoes horses.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun One who fits shoes to the feet; one who furnishes or puts on shoes.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun One who fits shoes to the feet.

Etymologies

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shoe +‎ -er

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Examples

  • During World War I, Enzo was a blacksmith and mule-shoer for the Italian army.

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  • Is it just me is or is the rest of the braidal shoer picture been swirled?

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  • Me thinks the braidal shoer cake is for me lassie, Bri!

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  • It makes one wonder if the braid for whom the braidal shoer was thrown was the same lady who had the gril.

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  • In Colorado, rescuers are looking for a snow-shoer who disappeared on a solo outing.

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  • Professional careers were generally shoer than business ones.

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  • Professional careers were generally shoer than business ones.

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  • Professional careers were generally shoer than business ones.

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  • “Mountain of the Maker,” the artificer par excellence, that is, the blacksmith: it is so called from a legendary shoer of horses and mules, who lived there possibly in the days before

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  • Professional careers were generally shoer than business ones.

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  • One who shoes horses. Usage on calk.

    October 27, 2008

  • We call the person who shoes our horse a farrier. I like shoer though. I gets right down to business. Reminds me of the time my daughter was very little and couldn't remember the name for ladder. She called it the "climber."

    October 28, 2008

  • Yes, farrier is both more common and more correct. I think the writer was just being laid-back, which he has a (bordering on irritating) tendency to do (at least in this book).

    October 28, 2008