Crossword-Solution: FARRIERS 8 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 11

After the battle the wounded men were brought in and the dead were buried.” “And what about the wounded horses?” I said; “were they left to die?” “No, the army farriers went over the field with their pistols and shot all that were ruined; some that had only slight wounds were brought back and attended to, but the greater part of the noble, willing creatures that went out that morning never came back! In our stables there was only about one in four that returned.

Sam went on: “Look at my men-at-arms”--the volunteer policemen with bulging hip-pockets, dangling billies and gleaming shields of office--“and at my refreshment tents behind”--where peanuts and pink lemonade were keeping the multitude busy--“and my attendants”--colored gentlemen with sponges and water-buckets--“the armorers and farriers haven't come yet.

Within the great enclosure thrived a fair sized town, for, with his ten hundred fighting-men, the Outlaw of Torn required many squires, lackeys, cooks, scullions, armorers, smithies, farriers, hostlers and the like to care for the wants of his little army.

The Normans had not only smiths to attend to the arms of the knights, but farriers to shoe their horses.

Simon Sturtevant, in his 'Treatise of Metallica,' published in 1612, estimates the whole number of iron-mills in England and Wales at 800, of which, he says, "there are foure hundred milnes in Surry, Kent, and Sussex, as the townsmen of Haslemere have testified and numbered unto me." But the townsmen of Haslemere must certainly have been exaggerating, unless they counted smiths' and farriers' shops in the number of iron-mills.