horseshoers

Equine foot specialists

Horseshoers are people who shoe horses—fitting and nailing metal horseshoes to hooves.

The trade is more commonly called farriery, and its practitioners farriers.

The horseshoers worked through the morning, fitting new shoes before the cavalry departed.

farriery

forge

Furnace for shaping metal

  • anvilMetal-shaping block
  • hammerTool for striking nails
  • tongsHinged grasping utensil

rasp · nails · clinchers · apron · chaps · trimming · shaping · fitting · corrective · therapeutic

metalwork

iron

Element twenty-six

tempering · quenching · punching · drawing · welding · blacksmithing · furnace · coal · coke · tongs

equine

mare

Female adult equine

stable · paddock · equestrian · lameness · soundness · gait · trot · canter · conformation · fetlock

Opposites
profession/trade contrast

horseshoersveterinarians

Medical professionals treating animals

horse doctors · horse breeders · jockeys · horse trainers · cobblers

Phrases
Family

horseshoe, horseshoes, horseshoeing, horseshoed, horseshoer

Familiarity
Top 1,000,000
Profile
Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Rated G