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currier

a person who tans hides

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courier – messenger, esp. one on a diplomatic mission

cur·ri·er

(kûr′ē-ər, kŭr′-)

One that prepares tanned hides for use.

[Middle English curreiour, from Old French, from Latin coriārius, from corium, leather; see sker- in Indo-European roots.]

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currier

(ˈkʌrɪə)

(Tanning) a person who curries leather

[C14: from Old French corier, from Latin coriārius a tanner, from corium leather]

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cur•ri•er

(ˈkɜr i ər, ˈkʌr-)

n.

1. a person who dresses tanned leather.

2. a person who curries horses.

[1350–1400; Middle English cur(r)iour,cor(r)iour < Anglo-French < Latin coriārius=cori(um) leather + -ārius -ary]

Cur•ri•er

(ˈkɜr i ər, kʌr-)

n.

Nathaniel, 1813–88, U.S. lithographer: with James Merritt Ives produced prints showing American life.

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Noun	1.	Currier - United States lithographer who (with his partner James Ives) produced thousands of prints signed `Currier & Ives' (1813-1888) Nathaniel Currier
	2.	currier - a craftsman who curries leather for use artisan, journeyman, artificer, craftsman - a skilled worker who practices some trade or handicraft

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Yet even if we add neatherds, shepherds, and other herdsmen, in order that our husbandmen may have oxen to plough with, and builders as well as husbandmen may have draught cattle, and curriers and weavers fleeces and hides,--still our State will not be very large.

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Upon which a Currier stood up and said, "Sirs, I differ from you altogether: there is no material for resistance equal to a covering of hides; and nothing so good as leather."

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Keyes entered the Curriers' home as they slept, rousing them awake and forcing them in to a farmhouse behind their house.

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About five months into what has become a nearly three-year project, the Project X team presented their progress to Curriers management to get a formal go-ahead and a budget for prototypes and other development costs.

Custom molder pursues the dream of proprietary products

Suggestive of Monty Python, evocative of Scots novelist William Boyd ("A Good Man in Africa") and generally disdainful of modern stereotypes and patriarchal white-man-on-the dark-continent stories, Lavinia Curriers film has the kind of free-wheeling sensibility and contempt for conformity that could give it theatrical traction--even if, as regards just about anything in the specialty arena, the current climate seems particularly hostile.

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VW Hicks and Sons, based in Curriers Close, Coventry, has been trading since 1970 but the tough economic climate resulted in a bumpy ride with many twists and turns for the firm which employs 25 people.

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To justify the pending increase in transport costs from pounds 1.71 per day to pounds 3 for taking my son to Curriers Close (an enterprise for adults with learning disabilities) by a social services minibus.

Dresden costs don't add up

CURRIERS CLOSE: Ex-packers on pounds 3 a day reveal hidden talents SCRAPPING a pounds 3 allowance for people with learning difficulties doing packing work prompted a storm of complaints last December.

Learning the joys of new work; CURRIERS CLOSE: Ex-packers on pounds 3 a day reveal hidden talents SCRAPPING a pounds 3 allowance for people with learning difficulties doing packing work prompted a storm of complaints last December

WE would like to bring attention, once again, to the situation of people with a learning disability who attend Curriers Enterprises, supported by Coventry City Council.

Letter: Your Say - Still no pay for Curriers work

And they insist that's all down to Coventry City Council scrapping the pounds 3 daily allowance paid to those people doing packing and recycling work at places like Curriers Close workshop.

Learning disabled lose pounds 3 - but gain so much SPECIAL REPORT

THE city council should be ashamed of itself for its despicable plan to withdraw the allowance paid to people with disabilities/ learning difficulties working at Curriers Close.