férocité, n.f., ferocity, fierceness.
*ferraille, n.f., old iron, scrap iron.
*ferrailler, v.n., to forge, to hammer; to dabble in fencing; to fence badly; (b.s.) to fight (with swords); to wrangle.
*ferrailleur, n.m., dealer in old iron; fighter (with a sword); wrangler.
ferrandinier, n.m., silk-weaver.
ferrant, adj. Maréchal —; farrier; shoe-smith.
ferré, -e, part., shod; metaled; stoned; ferruginous; chalybeate (of water); skilled, versed in, thoroughly up in. Chemin —; metaled road. Eau —e; chalybeate water. — à glace; rough-shod; skilled in. Voie —e; railroad.
ferrement (fèr-mān), n.m., iron tool; ironing; putting the irons on (convicts). pl., iron-work, iron fitting.
ferrer, v.a., to bind, to hoop, with iron. — une canne; to put a ferrule on, to tip, a cane. — un lacet; to tag a lace. — un cheval; to shoe a horse. — à glace; to rough-shoe.
ferret, n.m., tag (of a lace). Je ne voudrais pas en donner un — d’aiguillette; I would not give a fig, a rush, for it.