currier

See also: Currier

English

Etymology

From Old French corier, from Latin coriarius (“tanner, currier”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkʌɹɪɚ/,

  • Audio (Southern England):

    (file)

• (Indic) IPA^(key): /ˈkərɪjə(r)/
  • (stress neutralized) Homophone: career
• Rhymes: -ɪə(ɹ)

Noun

currier (plural curriers)

1. A specialist in the leather processing industry, who dresses the leather by beating, rubbing, scraping and colouring.
2. One who grooms a horse with a curry comb.

Translations

a specialist in the leather processing industry

• Bulgarian: кожар (bg) m (kožar)
• Czech: jirchář m
• Ido: ledro-preparisto
• Russian: коже́вник (ru) m (kožévnik)
• Slovak: garbiar m

Anagrams

• Curreri

Romansch

Alternative forms

• currider (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan)
• curider (Sutsilvan)
• curridur (Puter, Vallader)

Noun

currier m (plural curriers)

1. (Surmiran, chess) bishop

Related terms

• currieder