Monday, January 12, 2009

Medieval And Obsolete Professions: T to U

Tabernarius - Taverner, Innkeeper.

Tanner - one who tans (cures) animal hide into leather.

Tannator - Tanner.

Taper - candlewick maker or seller.

Tapley - one who puts the tap in an ale
cask.

Tapster - a barman; a person employed to serve beer.

Tasker – reaper.

Tawer - one who taws (makes hide into leather without the use of tanning).
Teamster - one who drives a team (horses or oxen) for hauling .
Teinter - Dyer.

Textor - weaver

Thatcher - roofer; specifically thatch roofs

Tide waiter - customs inspector

Tinctor - Dyer or possibly a painter.

Tinker - an itinerant mender and seller of kettles, tin pots and pans

Tipstaff - policeman

Travers - toll bridge collector

Tucker - cleaner of cloth goods

Turner - one who turns wood on a lathe into spindles

Ulnager - a person appointed to examine woolen goods for quality

Upholder - 1) upholsterer; 2) an auctioneer's assistant; 3) cheapjack; 4) seller of secondhand goods.

Upright worker - chimney sweep

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