Crossword-Solution: SHOER 5 letters, 43 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 8

Although he was a nail-maker and a horse-shoer--made axes, chisels, saws, and hammers for the artificer--spades and hoes for the farmer--bolts and fastenings for the lord's castle-gates, and chains for his draw-bridge--it was principally because of his skill in armour-work that he was esteemed.

The king’s men told him that a horse-shoer was indeed wanted at the palace, but he must be one who could lift up the feet of the horse with the golden shoes, and such a one they had not yet been able to find.

The horse-shoer then said that he knew the bird very well; he had seen it when it sat in its cage in another king’s palace, and if it did not sing now it must be because it did not have all that it wanted.

Then the darkness cleared away from the king’s eyes, and the more the bird sang the more clearly did he see, till at last in the strange horse-shoer he recognised his youngest son.

Straight in front rose the block that backs our destination, the Jebel el-Sßni', or "Mountain of the Maker," the artificer par excellence, that is, the blacksmith: it is so called from a legendary shoer of horses and mules, who lived there possibly in the days before Sultßn Selim.