verb/fɛ.ʁe/
to clad in iron (transitive), to be clad in iron (intransitive); to shoe (a horse); to clad in some metal, not necessarily iron; to hook (a fish)
“ferrer d'or” — to clad in gold
Inherited from Old French [Term?], from fer, or from Late Latin ferrāre (cf. classical ferrātus), from Latin ferrum. Compare Catalan and Portuguese ferrar; Italian ferrare; Spanish herrar.