"Horse-Leech" is a word in ENGLISH
A farrier; a veterinary surgeon.
A large blood-sucking leech (Haemopsis vorax), of
Europe and Northern Africa. It attacks the lips and mouths of horses.
I think I'd rather be heading to detention right now than to talk to him. My stomach is tied up in so many knots it could make a boy scout envious.
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I've never been much on fashion, but got quite a few compliments on a new sports jacket I wore to work one day. Mysecretary asked me where I got it and I told her that it was a surprise from my wife. I went home early yesterday, and there itwas, on the back of a kitchen chair.
Spectacles; -- so called from their resemblance to the barnacles used by farriers.
Read the complete definitionTo practice as a farrier; to carry on the trade of a farrier.
Read the complete definitionA shoer of horses; a veterinary surgeon.
Read the complete definitionThe business of a farrier; especially, the art of curing the diseases of horses.
Read the complete definitionlansétas - (Sp. lanceta) Lancet, fleam, a farrier’s sharp knife used in phlebotomy; a pocket-knife.
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