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Advocate - Solicitor acting in a Law Court
Ag. Lab - Agricultural Labourer
Alewife - Woman who ran an alehouse
Annealer - Processed metal or glass by furnace-heatingand immersion in chemical baths
Annuitant - Non-working person receiving an annual income or pension
Apprentice - Trainee bound to learn a craft or trade
Argentier - Controller of finances, a treasurer
Army H.P - Soldier on half pay
Assizor - A juror
Bailie - Magistrate in a Scottish burgh
Bailiff - Guard of fishing rights on a river
Banksman - Mine worker at pithead unloading coal from the cages
Bard - Poet or story-teller
Baron Officer (Also known as Barony officer) - employed to uphold the law within the Barony (District)
Baxter - Baker
Beadle - Parish official employed in church to usher and keep order.
Beadman - Licensed beggar
Beamer - A weaver's beamer drew yarn through and onto the long heavy beam of a loom.
Bedeswoman - An alms woman, licensed beggar
Beetler - Cloth mill worker operating a beetling machine to emboss fabric
Beildsman - Licensed beggar
Benchman - A shoemaker benchman cut the leather for boots and shoes. Also leather cutter for chairs
Berlin blacker - Applied a dull black varnish as a coating for ironware products
Black borderer - Person who made black-edged stationery for funeral intimations
Blaxter - Bleacher of cloth
Bleacher - Mill worker who whitened textiles, or paper
Blockcutter - Person who hand-carves wooden blocks used for printing
Blockmaker - A trader or broker
Blockprinter - Person who prints on paper or cloth with carved wooden blocks
Bobbin turner - Maker of wooden bobbins and spools for textile mills
Bookmaker - The "bookie" accepts gambling bets, traditionally on racing horses, dogs
Boot Clicker - Worked machine that made lace holes in boot uppers
Boot Clipper - Person using scissors cut the threads connecting rubber boot parts
Boot Closer - Person who stitched the leather uppers of boots and shoes
Boot Laster - Person who shaped the uppers of boots on a metal "last"
Boot Sprigger - Person who nailed the soles and uppers of boots together with 'sprigs' - small headless nails
Bottler - Filler of bottles, often in distillery
Boatman - Boat operator providing river or loch crossings.
Bowman - Sub-tenant who farmed tenant's cows for a season
Boxmaster - Treasurer or deacon of a trade guild or association- eg Weavers Guild
Brasiator Brewer
Brass Founder - The founder poured molten metal into moulds to make brass buckles, handles, fittings.
Brazier - Metal worker in brass, a brass smith
Brewster - Maker of beer, a brewer
Brusher - Coal miner who repaired mine passage roofs and sides
Burgess - Man listed as merchant or craftsman in a town burgh
Byreman - Farm worker who looked after cows in the byre (cattle-shed)
Cabinetmaker - Maker of wooden furniture
Cadger - Travelling pedlar
Cal. Prin. - Calico printer. Calico was a cotton cloth imported from India, then patterned with dyes
Callenderer - Smoothed cloth or paper by passing through rollers
Candler Maker - or seller of candles
Carbonarius - Charcoal maker
Carder - Prepared wool for spinning by brushing with wire pads
Carman - Driver of horse-drawn tramcars in late 19th Century
Carter - Worked with horse and cart on farms or in towns
Cartwright - Maker and repairer of horse-drawn carts
Catechist - Instructor in religious doctrine
Caulker - Filling cracks usually in ships by sealing with tar
Causewaymaker - Built town roads (causeways) with stone setts
Cautioner - Person who stands surety for another, for example for the arrival of a groom on his marriage day
Cellarman - Keeper of wine and spirits
Chairman - One of two persons who carried a sedan chair and passenger
Chaisemaker - Carriage maker
Chandler - Dealer in goods, often a ship's supplier
Chapman - Dealer of goods from a stall, or by travelling from village to village
Chapper - Employed to knock on doors of early risers. eg bakers, jute workers etc.
Charwoman - Cleaning woman
Check Weighman - He checked how much a miner was due to be paid on the coal he produced.
Chowder - Seller of fish, a fishmonger
Clagger - Person removing clags or dirty clots from a wool fleece
Clark - Clerk
Clicker - Worked machine that made lace holes in boot and shoe uppers
Clogger - Maker of clogs - wooden shoes
Clothier - Stocked and sold clothes which the tailor made
Cloth Dresser - Cloth mill worker who cut the sheets of cloth with shears
Cloth Lapper - Cleaned cotton fibres before sheets fed into carding machines
Cloth Tearer - Assisted a cloth printer in a print mill . Usually a youngster.
Coachman - Driver of coach and horses
Coachsmith - Maker and repairer of horse-drawn coaches.
Coalmaster - Owner and operator of a coal mine
Coal Trimmer - Person who stabilised coal-carrying barges/ships
Cobbler - Maker or repairer of shoes
Collier - Coal miner, at the coal face
Colourman - Mixer of dyes in textile trade
Colporteur - Travelling book seller
Combmaker - A maker of combs for textiles, or hair. See also Vulcanite Comb Maker
Compositor - Person who sets up type for printing
Conservator - Guardian or custodian
Contractor - Someone contracted to perform a trade or service, often by the owner eg a coal mining contractor.
Cooper - Maker of barrels and casks, often for distillers
Cordiner - Maker of leather shoes and boots
Cordwainer - see Cordiner
Cork Cutter - Worked in cutting and preparing imported raw cork bark from Portugal
Costermonger - Street seller of apples, other fruit and vegetables
Cottar - Tenant with only a cottage and little land
Cotton piecer - Piecers in cotton mills, often children, had to lean over spinning-machines to repair broken threads
Cotton warper - Cotton mill loom operator on the first stages of weaving the yarn
Cotton winder - Cotton mill worker who wound the thread on weaving looms
Cow-feeder - Tenant of small farm with dairy cows
Cowan - Old name for a builder of dry stone walls - a dry stone dyker
Cowper - Maker of cups
Creelman - Carried goods to market in a creel (basket)
Crofter - Tenant of farm and cottage (croft), usually in Highlands and Islands.
Curator - Person appointed by law as guardian
Currier - Person curing or tanning hides
Cutter - Cutter of cloth for the tailor
Dag - maker Maker of pistols
Dairymaid - Woman or girl employed to milk cows, make butter in dairy
Dapifer - Steward in a royal or noble house
Darner - Repaired holes or gaps in textile garments, typically stockings.
Dempster - One who pronounces judgement - a doomster (judge)
Dexter - Dyer
Distributor of Stamps - Appointee in charge of a county Stamp Office, collecting stamp duties (taxes) on land, registrations, etc
Diker/ Dyker - Builder of dry stone walls
Docker - Worker at docks who loads and unloads ships cargo
Doffer - Removed and replaced bobbins of yarn from weaving loom spindles
Dom. Serv. - Domestic servant, household worker
Dominie - School teacher
Draper - Dealer in fabrics and sewing materials
Drawer - Mine worker pushing or dragging coal carts
Dresser - 1. Surgeon's assistant - 2. Worker in quarry cutting rocks to shape eg slates or setts - - 3. Foundry worker cleaning metal after moulding
Drover - Cattle dealer and mover of livestock
Drayman - Cart driver of a long cart without sides
Drysalter - Dealer in salted or dried meats, pickles and sauces
Dustman - Uplifted street litter and domestic rubbish ( see 'scavenger' )
Dyker - Builder of dry stone walls
Electrotyper - Printing plate maker of electrotype metal plants, including lead preparation. (See also stereotyper)
Engine Keeper - Operated and maintained an industrial steam-driven engine.
Exciseman - Collector of taxes
F.S. - Female Servant
Factor - Estate agent for landowner, collector of rents
Farm servant - Farm worker under contracted period to work for farmer
Farrier - Blacksmith who shoes horses
Fencible - Soldier recruited at times of war, a militiaman
Fethelar - A fiddler
Fireman - 1. Person in charge of a furnace, eg. on a train or ship
- 2. A fire fighter
Fishcurer - Dried and salted fish for onward transport in barrels
Fishwife - Woman who carried and sold fresh fish from door to door.
Fitter - Assembled wooden or metal parts , or machinery
Ferry-louper - Orkney name for incomer from mainland
Feuar - Landholder under feudal system paid a feu (fee) to the overlord
Flax dresser - Prepared the flax fibres ready for spinning. See also heckler and scutcher.
Flax heckler - Flax dresser who separated the coarse flax with a toothed hackle
Flax scutcher - Beat flax fibres by hand or through a machine as part of the flax dressing process.
Flaxman - Dealer in flax
Flesher - Butcher
Fletcher - Maker of arrows, an arrowsmith
Floater Man - seasonally employed to guide and steer timber logs downstream
Flockmaster - Person in charge of managing a flock of sheep
Forespeaker - Advocate, a pleader in court
Forrester - Employed to guard the forest and its game against poachers and trespassers.
Founder - Maker of items from molten metal eg in a iron or brass foundry.
Freeman - Medieval freemen were not owned by a feudal lord, but had privileges granted to own land and trade in a burgh
French Polisher - Brought wood cabinets to a fine finish with sandpaper and oils.
Fruictman - Man who sells fruit
Furnaceman - Attended to furnace, often in metal works
Gaberlunzie - A beggar
Gamekeeper - Guard and breeder of wild game (pheasants etc) on an estate
Ganger - Gangsman leading a gang or squad of men
Gangrel - Vagrant or tramp
Gasfitter - Fitted pipes to carry a gas supply, usually coal gas , to domestic or industrial premises.
Gas Retortman - In gas works, operated large oven in which coal was baked to manufacture coal gas.
Gaoler - Jailer
Guager - Excise officer
Gudger - A grandfather. Corruption of gudsyr
Gen. Lab - General labourer
Ghillie - Highland guard of wild game, especially deer
Gilder - Person who impressed gold leaf or gilt to overlay an item, such as furniture or an art frame
Girnalman - Man in charge of meal store or granary
Glover - Maker of gloves
Goldbeater - Artisan who hammered gold into gold leaf, thin plates of gold for gilding.
Gowcher - A grandfather
Granger - Keeper of grain store (granary)
Grasskeeper - On the crofting lands of the Highlands and western Islands, one who kept grass for grazing stock (?)
Gratefitter - Fitted metal grates to hold fires in domestic fireplaces.
Grieve - Responsible for a group of farm workers
Groom - Responsible for horses on an estate
Ground Officer - Employed by large landed estate to supervise the activities of tenants
H.L.W. - Hand loom weaver- weaver of cloth on a home-based loom
Haberdasher - Seller of small clothing wares and sewing materials
Hackler - Lint dresser who separated the coarse flax with a toothed hackle
Hammerman - Metal worker, a smith
Hatter - Maker of hats, a milliner
Hawker - Pedlar, seller of small goods from door to door
Heatherer - Thatched roofs of houses and crofts with heather divots or stems (esp. in Highlands and Islands)
Heckler - see hackler
Hecklemaker - Maker of flax combs for use by heckler/hackler
Heddler - Weaving loom operator in textile mill
Hedger - Laid and repaired hedges enclosing fields making them stock-proof
Herd - Shepherd
Heritor - Landholder in a parish
Hetheleder - Person who cut and sold heather as a source of fuel.
Hewer - Miner underground working the coal face
Hind - Farm servant
Holder-on - Assisted a skilled rivetter, usually in the ship-building industry
Hortulanus - Gardener
Hosier - Seller of long wool or silk stockings
Hostler - Person looking after horses at an inn
Houghman - A farm worker, but doing what ? (anyone know ?)
Hooper - Maker of hoops for barrels
Howdywife - Midwife
Husbandman - A cultivator of soil, a farmer. Later including animal husbandry
Indweller - Inhabitant of a particular town or place
Iron Dresser - Foundry worked who cleaned sand and impurities from cast metal from the mould.
Iron Miner - Miner of ironstone rock used in the production of pig iron
Iron Moulder - Iron foundry worker who poured molten iron from furnace into moulds
Iron Planer - Used a machine to put flat surfaces (planing) onto cast iron structures
Iron Shingler - Iron worker who operated a steam hammer on wrought iron from the furnace
Iron Weigher - Weighed iron products from foundry for selling by the ton.
Jackman - Attendant or man-at-arms, for a nobleman or landowner
Japanner - Applied black gloss lacquer to furniture
J.P. - Justice of the Peace
Jobbing man - Employed for a variety of small jobs or tasks
Joiner - A wood worker, a carpenter
Journeyman - Qualified tradesman, apprenticeship served
Jute winder - Jute mill worker who wound the thread on weaving looms .
Kirk-master - Deacon in a church
Kish maker - Maker of woven willow baskets
Laird - Rural estate landowner, usually in the Highlands
Lampman - The lampman or lamp trimmer maintained the paraffin oil lamps in a colliery, and checked the miners' safety lamps.
Lamplighter - Employed to light the gas street lamps in Victorian cities
Lappit - Weaver Lappit or lappet is a light muslin cloths with figuring woven in a zigzag pattern on a special loom. Also lappit clipper, and ripper.
Lathsplitter - Prepared thins strips of wood (laths) for nailing to walls and ceilings as a base to spread plaster over
Laundress - Washerwoman for clothes
Lawman - Officer with magisterial powers
Lawrightman - Determined local weights & measures, and land tax
Leerie - Another name for a lamplighter (qv)
Lengthsman - Railway worker responsible for maintaining a length of rail track
Letter Carrier - Carried and delivered letters by hand . Later known as postman.
Liferenter - One who has a tenancy for life
Lime-burner - Rock lime was burned in stone kilns, then crushed and spread on farm fields.
Limmer - 1. Thief or scoundrel - 2. Artist who decorates manuscripts
Lineator - Surveyor or measurer
Lint dresser - Prepared flax (lint) fibres ready for spinning.
Lithographer - Makes printing press plates from type-set paper or film
Litster - Dyer of cloth
Lock Keeper - Operated the locks across canals allowing boats to pass through
Looper - Fitted yarn onto knitting machine, for example in hosiery making
Lorimer - Maker of metal horse harnesses
Lotman - A corn thresher who was paid an allowance of corn as part of his fee
Lotter - 1. Made up odd lots of wool and batched them for sale -2. Croft or small farm divided into lots, usually worked by sons of the crofter
Loun - A boy
Lozenge Cutter - Cut and prepared sweets (candy) or preserve.
M.S. Male servant - Merchant Service (Seaman)
Maltster Maltster, or maltman - prepared malt from fermented barley for brewing or distilling
Manf. - Manufacturer
Mangler - Washerwoman who passed clothes through the rollers of a mangle
Mantua - Maker Ladies dressmaker or bonnet maker. ( Mantua was a woman's loose gown in 17th-18th century)
Mariner - Seaman, usually in merchant navy
Mason - Stone cutter and layer
Master - Head school teacher
Master Mariner - Ship's captain
Mendicant - One who made a living by begging, or living on alms. eg mendicant friars
Miller - In charge of a corn mill usually powered by a water wheel, grinding grain such as oats and wheat into meal or flour.
Milliner - Maker of hats and female headgear
Millwright - Installed and maintained heavy machinery in mills. A mechanic.
Min. - Minister (or miner)
Miner - Worker at mineral mines, usually coal, ironstone or shale in central Scotland
Moneyer - Mintmaster, maker of coin money
Monger - Seller of goods, eg fish-monger, iron-monger
Moulder - Poured molten metal into moulds. See iron moulder
Mouterer - Miller receiving a fee for grinding corn
Nailer - Blacksmith who made nails by cutting and shaping metal
Navvie - A" navigator", a worker digging out canal beds, later roads.
Night Soil - Carrier Person employed to remove and dispose of toilet waste
Notary - Solicitor, lawyer
Oakum Worker - Took old ropes apart for the hemp fibre (oakum ) to be used for caulking (qv)
Orraman - Spare man or odd-job man around the farm
Ostler/Hostler - person looking after horses at an inn
Ourman - Overseer
Outworker - Person employed in outdoor work
Oval Turner - Lathe operator who produced oval shaped wooden legs of tables, chairs, stair balusters. etc.
Overman - Supervisor in colliery checking mine and coal quality
Palingwright - Maker of wooden fencing (paling) for use on rural estates
Pattern Maker - Metal pattern makers made forms and moulds for casting iron products
Pauper - Person without money and means of earning a livelihood
Pavior - Layer of masonry slabs and flag-stones, eg making a pavement
Pedlar - Seller of small goods from door to door
Pendicler - Sub-tenant with some grass and arable land
Pensioner - Originally meant someone receiving an Army pension after active service
Periwig-maker - Maker of wigs for gentlemen
Peuterer - Worker in pewter
Instrument Maker -Maker of scientific, mathematical and astronomical instruments
Piecer -Mill worker who joined threads broken by spinning
Pickermaker - Mill worker who made the "pickers" - leather attachments which drove a shuttle across a weaving loom
Pikar - A petty thief
Pirn Winder - Mill worker who threaded yarn on weaving looms
Pitheadman - Over-ground worker at a coal mine (pit)
Pit Brusher - Coal miner who repaired mine passage roofs and sides
Pit Roadman - Mine worker preparing and repairing underground passageways
Pit Sinker - Man contracted to sink new mine shafts
Platelayer - Railway worker laying and repairing rails
Plewman - Ploughman
Ploughman - Farm servant with working horse, or team of horses, ploughing the fields
Plumber - Worked with lead on roofs and stained glass windows, as well as with lead water pipes and later copper pipes
Pointsman - Railway worker who operates rail points
Police Weigher - At the docks he weighed goods and cargo as it came ashore
Polentarius - Malt maker
Pony Driver - Leading pony underground pulling coal hutches
Porter - Baggage carrier; or gate keeper
Portioner - Owner of land, previously divided amongst co-heirs
Portmanteau Maker - Maker of leather trunk bags which opened into two equal parts
Post Boy - Guard travelling on a mail coach
Postman - Delivers mail letters and parcels to residential and business addresses.
PLW - Power-loom weaver- weaver working a powered loom in a textile mill
Preventive officer - Customs officer on boat in coastal waters
Print compositor - Person who sets up type for printing
Print cutter - Person who makes the printing blocks
Printfield worker - Mill worker who printed cloth with dyes and inks.
Procurator - Lawyer or advocate
Procurator - Fiscal - Principal public prosecutor in district
Provost - Elected head of town burgh council
Publican - Keeper of a public house or "pub" offering ales and spirits to the public.
Puddler - Iron worker operating a puddling or ball furnace where cast iron turned into wrought iron
Quarrier -Worker in stone quarry
Quine - A young woman (queen) - Aberdeenshire
Rafter - Assembled floating logs into rafts for towing to timber mill
Railway Lengthsman - Railway worker responsible for maintaining a length of rail track
Railway Waggoner - Railway worker responsible for coupling and decoupling railway wagons
Ranselman - Was empowered by court to search houses for stolen property
R.C.C - Roman Catholic Clergyman
Reidare - Minor clergyman in early Church, a reader
Reader - A student in law, medicine, or other classical subject
Red Leader - Painted a red lead oxide paint onto metal surfaces to protect them, eg ship metal
Reeler - Mill worker who put the yarns onto reels before weaving
Relict - Widow
Resetter - Receiver or concealer of stolen goods
Retortman - In gas works, operated large oven in which coal was baked to manufacture coal gas.
Riddler - Maker or user of coarse sieves (riddles) for grain, soil, etc.
Riever - Robber, originally of cattle
Rivetter - Shipyard worker joining metal plates with hammered rivets
Rope Spinner - Maker of rope by braiding yarns of cotton or flax
Rove Carrier - Moved fibres of heckled flax (rove) before spinning as linen thread.
Rover - Operator of mill machine which prepared the carded fibres of wool, cotton, etc.
Saddler - Maker and repairer of horse saddles and leathers
Salinator - One who added salt as a preservative
Sandpaperer - see French Polisher
Sawbones - Surgeon or physician
Sawyer - Worker in sawmill or timber pit
Scallag - Poor male or female farm servant of a tacksman
Scavenger - 1. The 'scaffie' was a dustman or street sweeper - 2. Worker in a jute mill picking up loose bits of material from the floor
Scholar - A child attending school
Schoolmaster - Head school teacher
Sclater - Slater, a roof tiler with slates
Scourer - Washed raw wool by hand with soap or urine before processing,
Scrivener Scribe - employed to draft contracts, prepare accounts, etc
Scullery Maid - Kitchen servant
Seafarer - One who found employment on ships - a seaman.
Seamstress - Woman who sewed, made and mended clothes
Seceder - Member of Secession Church which broke away in 1733.
Seriand - A constable or bailiff
Servitor - Household servant (male) ; or a lawyer's clerk or secretary
Servitrix- Household servant (female)
Settmaker - Cutter of stones, often granite, to make cobbled streets.
Sexton - Layman guarding church building and vestments
Sheriff - Chief officer of Crown in county
Shingler - Roof tiler with wooden shingles (cf slater) (but see also Iron Shingler)
Shipwright - Constructor and repairer of ships. A ship carpenter.
Ship Master - Owner or captain of a ship
Ship Stager - Stagers in a shipyard erected wooden scaffolding and platforms around a ship being built.
Sho. - Shopman, person employed in retail trade
Skinner - Flayer of animal hides for leather
Solicitor - Lawyer
Souter - Shoemaker
Slater - Roof tiler with slates
Smith - Metal worker, usually a blacksmith
Spectioner - Third mate on a whaling ship, who checked all was correctly stowed in the hold.
Spinster - Woman who spins textiles (also term for an unmarried woman)
Spirit - Merchant Dealer in spirits, wines and ale
Sprigger - Embroiderer of fine lace and muslin; see also Boot Sprigger
Squarewright - Worker in fine furniture
Stampmaster - Official inspector who had powers to impose fines or penalties on faulty or fraudulent manufacturing.
Station Master - Railway employee in charge of station
Stereotyper - Printing plate maker of stereotype metal plates. (See also electrotyper)
Stevedore - Dock worker loading and unloading ships cargo
Steward - Chief servant of household of royal or noble family
Stoker - Stoked fuel into a furnace or boiler, eg on a ship
Stone Hewer - 1. A miner who drilled holes in the coal face prior to dynamiting. 2. A sculptor or mason in stone.
Stravaiger - A wanderer, a vagrant
Sugar Baker - One who owned or worked in a sugar factory, refining raw sugar from the West Indies
Surfaceman - Laid and repaired surface of road or railway, or mine passage
Surveyor of taxes - Responsible for calculating and levying taxes on property and possessions
Sword slipper - Maker of sword sheaths
Tacksman - Farm tenant who sub-let rents or tacks
Tailzeor - Tailor
Tambourer - Embroiderer using hoops to hold the cloth
Tanner - Curer of animal hides to make leather
Tapsman - Head servant in charge
Tearer - Assisted a cloth printer in a print mill . Usually a youngster.
Tenementer - Tenant of dwelling in large town building (tenement)
Tenter - Mechanic who tended and repaired apparatus, for example a weaver's power loom Thatcher - Roofer working with natural cut reeds or heather thatch
Thong Maker - A maker of leather whips and thongs.
Tick maker - Upholsterer
Tick manufacturer - A weaver of various fabrics
Tidewaiter - Customhouse officer who secured payment of duty from merchant vessels coming in to port
Tinker - Travelling repairman, or tinsmith , seller of pots and pans
Todman - Man employed to kill foxes (tods) on an estate
Topper - A seamstress, for example, of shirts
Towsman - Man in charge of the halyards on a fishing boat
Trencherman - Cook
Turkey Red Dyer - Turkey Red from madder root was used to dye cotton cloth ( United Turkey Red Co.Ltd. Alexandria )
Turner - A lathe operator, shaping wood or metal
Type-founder - Printer who set out individual letters on printing blocks
Vabster - A weaver
Vanman - Driver of a light commercial or delivery vehicle, such as a bread van
Vermin Trapper - Employed to trap and kill rats, mice, foxes, moles, as pests.
Vestiarus - Keeper of the wardrobe
Victualler - Supplier of food and provisions
Vintner - Wine merchant
Vulcanite Comb Maker - Rubber worker making hard (vulcanite) combs for the textile industry, for combing wool etc.
Wadsetter - Creditor or holder of land or property under mortage
Wainwright - Wagon maker
Walkster - Cloth worker cleaning and thickening cloth by wetting and walking over it
 Weaver - Maker of cloth from yarns of wool, cotton, silk etc. Operator of hand loom or textile mill power loom .
Weigher - Weighed goods prior to sale or approval . See Iron Weigher and Police Weigher .
Wheelwright - Maker or repairer of wheels
White Seam Sewer - Seamstress who sewed white material such as sheets, pillows cases, etc
Whitesmith - Worker in tin and light metals (cf. blacksmith)
Wincey Weaver - Weaver using string cotton thread
Winder - Textile mill worker who wound the thread on weaving looms. See Cotton Winder
Wire Weaver - Operated power loom to weave wire into industrial cloths, sieves, etc.
Wobster - A weaver
Wrecker - Plunderer of a shipwreck, sometimes luring ships to destruction.
Wright - Joiner or carpenter
Writer - Solicitor
W.S. - Writer to the Signet (solicitor)
Yankee man - Man who operated the Yankee cloth-cropping machine introduced from America, used in wool manufacture in the Borders.
Yarn bleacher - Bleacher of textile fibres, such as flax
Yarn dresser - Preparer of fibres . See also flax dresser
Yarn twister - Twisted fibres, such as silk, into thread or yarn
Yarn warper - Set up the warp (thread) on looms ready for weaving
Yauger - Pedlar who traded in local fish and produce (Shetland Islands).
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