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noun Chiefly British.
- a blacksmith.
noun mainly British
- a person who shoes horses
- archaic another name for veterinary surgeon
- military a noncommissioned officer who looks after horses
1560s, from Middle French ferrier “blacksmith,” from Latin ferrarius “of iron,” also “blacksmith,” from ferrum “iron” (in Medieval Latin, also “horseshoe”); see ferro-. An earlier form of it in English was ferrer, ferrour “ironsmith” (late 12c., as a surname).