rare. [f. the sb.]
1. trans. To treat (an animal) as a farrier does.
1814. Selby & M. Weighton Road Act, ii. 7. Beasts … returning from being shoed or farriered.
2. intr. To practise farriery.
Hence Farriering vbl. sb., the action of the vb.
1707. Mortimer, Husb., 154. There are many Pretenders to the Art of Farriering and Cow-leeching.
a. 1873. Livingstone, in Boy’s Own Paper (1889), 7 Sept., 778/3. Carpentering, gun-mending, farriering.
