• ACATER: one who supplied food provisions, such as a ships chandler
• ACCIPITRARY a falconer or keeper and tamer of hawks
• ACCOMPANT: an accountant
• ACCOUCHEUR / ACCOUCHEUS: one who assisted women in childbirth
• ACCOUTREMENT MAKER / ACCOUTRE: a supplier of military accessories
• ACRE-MAN / ACKERMAN: a man who ploughed or cultivated the land
• ACTUARY: a statistician who computed insurance risks and premiums
• AGENT: a person who acted on behalf of a company or another person
• AGRICULTURIST: a person involved with land cultivation or animal husbandry
• ALABASTERER: one who worked with alabaster
• ALCHEMIST: a medieval chemist who claimed to be able to turn base metals into gold
• ALE DRAPER: an ale-house keeper
• ALE TASTER: an officer appointed in every court precinct to inspect ale, beer, and bread, and examine the quality and quantity within his precincts
• ALE TUNNER: a person employed by the brewery to fill ale casks called "tuns" with ale
• ALEWIFE a woman who kept an alehouse or tavern
• ALL SPICE: grocer
• ALMONER: an officer who distributed charity or alms; by ancient law every monastery was to disperse a tenth of its income in alms to the poor, and all bishops were obliged to keep an almoner
• ALMSMAN: a person supported by charity or one who lived on alms
• ALNAGER: official who examined the quality of woolen goods and stamped them with the town seal of approval
• AMANUENSIS: one who is employed to take dictation or to copy manuscript
• AMBER CUTTER: a person who cut ambergris
• ANCHOR SMITH: one who made anchors
• ANCHORESS: a female hermit or religious recluse
• ANCHORITE: a person who has retired into seclusion for religious reasons
• ANKLE BEATER: a young person who helped to drive the cattle to market
• ANNATTO MAKER: a person who worked in the manufacture of dyes for paint or printing
• ANTIGROPELOS MAKER: a person who made waterproof leggings
• ANVIL SMITH: a person who made anvils and hammers for blacksmiths
• APIARIANA: beekeeper
• APOTHECARY: a druggist
• APPRENTICE: one who was bound to a skilled worker for a specified time to learn a trade
• APRONMAN: [obsolete] a laboring man; a mechanic
• AQUAVITA SELLER: liquor seller
• ARBITER: a witness or judge
• ARCHER: a person skilled in using a bow and arrow
• ARCHIATOR: a physician
• ARCHIVIST: one who kept historical records
• ARGOLET: a mounted bowman
• ARKWRIGHT: a skilled craftsman who produced "arks" (wooden chests)
• ARMIGER: one entitled to bear arms, such as knight or esquire
• ARMOURER: one who made suits or plates of armor for buildings or ships
• ARPENTEUR: a land-surveyor
• ARTIFICER: a blacksmith; one who made fuses, grenades, shells, etc.
• ARTISAN: a skilled tradesman
• ASHMAN: a dustman
• ASSAY MASTER: one who determined the amount of gold or silver to go in coins
• ASSAYER: one who examined characteristics (weight, measure or quality) to determine a value
• AUGER MAKER: one who made the carpenters augers for boring holes in wood
• AULNAGER: See Alnager
• AURIFABER / AURIFEX: a goldsmith
• AVENATOR: a hay and forage merchant
• AVOWRY: term for the lord of the manor
• AXLE TREE MAKER / AXLE TREE TURNER: one who made axles for coaches and wagons
• BACKMAKER: a person who made "backs", vats, tubs, a Cooper
• BACKSTER: originally, a female baker; later, a baker of either sex
• BACK'US BOY: kitchen servant
• BADGER: a licensed pauper who wore a badge with the letter "P" on it and could only work in a defined area; a corn miller or dealer; an itinerant food trader
• BADGY FIDDLER: a boy trumpeter in the military
• BAGMAN: a traveling salesman; one who showed samples and solicits order for a manufacturer
• BAGNIOKEEPER: a person in charge of a bath house or brothel
• BAILIE: bailiff
• BAILIFF: [1] a court attendant entrusted with duties such as the maintenance of order in a courtroom during a trial; [2] an official who assisted a British sheriff and who had the power to execute writs, processes, and arrests; [3] (chiefly British) an overseer of an estate; a steward
• BALISTER: a cross-bowman
• BAIRMAN / BAREMAN: pauper, beggar
• BALANCER: a person employed in the coal mines to operate the "balance" which is a slope with a pulley at the top where empty coal tubs pulled full tubs up the slope
• BALER: one who bales of hay
• BALLAD MONGER: one who sold printed ballads on the street
• BALLAST HEAVER: a person who loaded ballast into the hold of empty ships
• BALLER UP: a person who assisted the potter by measuring out the balls of clay
• BAND FILER: a metal worker in the gun making industry
• BANDSTER: [obsolete] one who bound sheaves after reapers during a harvest
• BANG BEGGAR: [slang] a constable who carried a strong staff
• BANKER: a person who dug trenches and ditches to allow drainage of the land, placing the surplus earth in banks around the edge
• BANKS MAN: [1] an overseer at a coal mine; [2] a bank manager
• BANQUETER: a broker or banker
• BARBER-CHIRURGEON - a person who practiced surgery and was a barber; in the 18th century an Act was passed that limited Barbers to hair-cutting, shaving, dentistry and blood letting
• BARD: a poet or minstrel
• BARGEMAN: one who worked on or owned and operated a barge
• BARKEEPER: a toll keeper
• BARKER: [obsolete] a tanner
• BARKMAN: a bargeman
• BARM BREWER: a person who made yeast
• BARREL FILER: a person employed in the gun manufacturing industry
• BARTONER / BARTON: a person in charge of the monastic farm
• BASIL WORKER: a person who worked with sheep and goat skins

• BASKETMAN: person who made baskets and furniture from wicker; one employed to empty the basket of coal being offloaded from the colliers into the barges
• BATMAN: an officer's servant in the army
• BATTLEDORE MAKER: one who made the beaters used on clothes, carpets, etc. to remove the dust
• BAWD: a procurer or procuress for a house of prostitution
• BAXTER: a baker
• BAYWEAVER: one who wove bay, a fine woolen fabric also known as baize
• BEADLE: a town crier or warrant officer; a lowly parish officer appointed to keep order in church, punish petty offenders, and act as a servant or messenger of the parish
• BEAMSTER: the man who worked at the beam in a tannery
• BEAVER: one who made felt used in hat making
• BEDMAN: a sexton
• BEDDER: [1] an upholsterer; [2] one who took care of the breeding of cattle; [3] a bed-maker
• BEDWEAVER: a person who made the webbing for bed frames, also a person who wove quilts
• BEESKEPMAKER: beehive maker
• BEEKEEPER / BEEMASTER: a person who raised and kept bees for their honey
• BELL FOUNDER: one who made bells
• BELL HANGER: the person who installed bells in churches
• BELLMAN: a town crier employed to make public announcements in the streets
• BELL RINGER: one in charge of ringing the town's church bells
• BELLOWFARMER: person responsible for the care and maintenance of the church organ
• BELLOWS MAKER: a person who made bellows used for organs or blacksmiths' fires
• BELLY BUILDER: a person who built and fitted the interiors of pianos
• BENDER: a person who cut leather
• BERNER: [obsolete] a man in charge of a pack of hounds
• BESOM MAKER: [obsolete] one who made brooms
• BIBLIOTHECARY: a librarian
• BIDDY: female servant usually of Irish stock
• BID-STAND: [obsolete] one who bade travelers to "stand and deliver"; a highwayman or robber
• BILL POSTER: a person who put up notices, signs and advertisements
• BINDER: one who bound items such as books
• BIRD BOY: a person employed to scare away birds from crops
• BIRD CATCHER; a person who caught birds for selling
• BIRDS NEST SELLER: a person who sold birds nest collected from the wild complete with eggs; these were then hatched by domestic birds and sold as pets
• BLACKING MAKER: a person who made polish for shoes
• BLACK BORDERER: a person who made black edged stationery for funerals
• BLADESMITH: sword maker or knife maker
• BLEMMERE: a plumber
• BLOCKCUTTER / BLOCKER: a person who made wooden blocks used in the hat trade; a person who laid down the blocks on which a ships keel was laid
• BLOCK MAKER: a person who engraved the blocks used in the printing trade
• BLOCK PRINTER: a printer who used wooden blocks for printing
• BLOODLETTER / BLOODMAN: the person who used leeches for letting blood
• BLOOMER: a person who produced iron from ore
• BLOWER: [1] a glass blower; [2] a person who operated a "blowing machine" used to clean and separate fibers in the textile trade; [3] a person who operated the bellows at a blacksmiths
• BLUESTOCKING female writer
• BLUFFER: a landlord
• BOARDING OFFICER: one who inspected ships before entering port
• BOARDWRIGHT: a carpenter
• BOATMAN: a person who worked on a boat, predominately on rivers and canals; boat repairer
• BOATSWAIN: an officer in charge of the sails and rigging
• BOBBER: [1] a person who polished metals; [2] person who helped to unload fishing boats
• BOCHER: [obsolete] butcher
• BODEYS MAKER / BODY MAKER: a person who made bodices for womens garments
• BODGER: a craftsman who made wooden chair legs and the spars
• BOILERMAKER: one who worked with metal in any industrial setting
• BOILER PLATER: a person who made rolled iron plate used to make boilers for steam engines
• BOLTER: a person who sifted meal
• BONDAGER: a female worker on a farm who was bonded
• BONDMAN: a person bonded to a master for the purpose of learning a skill or trade
• BONE BUTTON TURNER: a person who made buttons using a lathe
• BONE LACE MAKER: one who made pillow lace
• BONE PICKER: See Rag Picker
• BONESETTER: a person who set broken bones
• BONIFACE: an innkeeper
• BOOK GUILDER: one who decorated books with gold leaf
• BOONMASTER: a surveyor of roads with the responsibilities of maintaining and repairing the road
• BOOT-CATCHER: the person at an inn whose business was to pull off boots
• BOOTBINDER: one employed to operate the machines which bound footwear
• BOOT CLOSER: one who worked in the shoe trade stitching together all the parts of a shoe upper
• BOOTHMAN: a corn merchant
• BORLERA: a person who made cheap coarse clothing
• BOTCHER: a cobbler; a tailor; an unskilled laborer
• BOTTILER / BOTTLER: a person who made leather containers for holding liquids such as wine flasks or water bottles
• BOTTLE BOY: a pharmacist's assistant
• BOWLER: [1] a person who made bowls and dishes; [2] one who made the rounded part of spoons before casting
• BOWLMAN: a dealer in crockery
• BOWYER: a person in the bow trader; an archer
• BRABENER: a weaver
• BRACHYGRAPHER: a person who wrote short hand
• BRAKEMAN / BRAKESMAN: a person who operated the winch at the pit head; a person who operated the braking mechanism on trains and trams
• BRASIATOR: a brewer of ale
• BRASS FINISHER: one who polished brass goods
• BRASS CUTTER: a person who made copperplate engravings
• BRASS FOUNDER: one who cast brass
• BRAYER: a person who ground things up in a mortar
• BRAZIER: one who works in brass
• BREACH MAKER: a person who made the breach for guns
• BREWSTER: a female brewer
• BRICKBURNER / BRICKMAKER: a person who used a kiln to make bricks
• BRICKMAN / BREAKMAN: a bricklayer

         BRIDEWELL KEEPER: the person in charge of a lock-up or jail

• BRIDGEMAN: toll keeper at bridges
• BRIGHTSMITH: tinsmith
• BROADCLOTH WEAVER: a person who operated a wide loom
• BROAD COOPER: a person employed as a go-between for the brewery and the innkeepers
• BROGGER: a wool merchant
• BROOM DASHER: a dealer in brooms
• BROOM SQUIRE: one who made brooms from birch
• BROWDERER / BROIDERER: an embroiderer
• BROWNSMITH: a person who worked with copper or brass
• BUCK WASHER: a laundress
• BUCKLER / BUCKLESMITH: a person who made buckles
• BUCKLE TONGUE MAKER: a person who made the metal points that go in the holes of a belt
• BULLWHACKER: a bullock or oxen driver
• BUMBOAT MAN: one who met ships at anchor, with goods for passengers and crew to purchase
• BUNTER: a rag and bone woman
• BURGONMASTER: mayor
• BURLER: one who dresses or readies cloth for sale by removing flaws, knots, or imperfections
• BURMAIDEN: [also BOWERMAIDEN] - a chambermaid or lady in waiting
• BURYEMAN: a grave digger
• BUSHELER: a tailor's assistant
• BUSKER: [obsolete] a hair dresser
• BUSS MAKER: a maker of guns
• BUTNER: button maker
• BUTTON BURNISHER: one who polished buttons
• CABBIE: driver of a small horse drawn passenger vehicle
• CAD: a person employed to feed and water horses at coach stops
• CADDY BUTCHER: horse meat butcher
• CADGER: a beggar
• CAINER: a person who made walking sticks
• CALCINER: a person who burnt bones to make powdered lime
• CALENDER: a person who listed documents
• CALKER: an astrologer or magician
• CAMBIST: a banker or one who dealt in notes and bills
• CAMBRIC MAKER: a person who made a fine linen or cotton fabric called cambric
• CAMERIST: a lady's maid
• CANDLE MAKER / CANDLER: one who made and sold candles
• CANDY MAN: [1] an itinerant candy salesman; [2] a bailiff or process server
• CANER: a person who made the seats for chairs out of woven cane
• CANTER: a beggar or vagrant
• CANTING CALLER: an auctioneer
• CANVASER: a person who made canvas
• CAPE MERCHANT: the head merchant in a factory
• CAPER: a cap maker
• CAPTAIN: [1] a person in charge of a ship or a group of soldiers; [2] an overseer
• CARDER: one who carded wool
• CARDMAKER: [1] A person who made the handheld implement used for carding wool and cotton; [2] the maker of playing cards
• CARNIFEX: an executioner or butcher
• CARTER: a wagoner, stable headman, or charioteer
• CARTOGRAPHER: a map maker
• CARTOMANCER: a fortune teller who used cards
• CART WHEELER: one who made cart wheels
• CARTWRIGHT: one who made carts or wagons
• CASTER / CASTOR: maker of small bottles used for sprinkling salt, pepper, sugar, etc.
• CASTRATOR: [also GELDER] one who castrated farm animals
• CATTLE JOBBER: a person who bought and sold cattle
• CAULKER: a person who made boats watertight by caulking the seams
• CELLARMAN: one who looked after the beer, wines and spirits in public houses or the warehouse
• CHAFFERER: a dealer in chaff
• CHAISE MAKER: wicker cart maker
• CHALONER: blanket maker
• CHAMBERLAIN: a steward to either royalty or nobility, in charge of the household
• CHAMBERMAID: a female servant who attended to the bedrooms in a house or inn
• CHAMBERMASTER: a shoemaker who worked in his own home
• CHANDLER: originally, one who made or sold candles; a retail dealer in provisions, groceries, etc.
• CHANTY MAN: the sailor who led the singing on board ship
• CHAPELER: a person who made and sold hats
• CHAPMAN: an itinerant peddler or one who kept a booth in a marketplace
• CHARCOAL BURNER: a person who made charcoal usually in the woods where the trees were cut
• CHARWOMAN: a cleaning woman hired by the day
• CHASER: engraver
• CHEESEMAN / CHEESE MONGER: cheese dealer
• CHIFFONNIER: wig maker
• CHRONOLOGIST: one who recorded official events of historical importance
• CLICKER: a merchant's servant who would stand at the door and invite customers into the store; a foreman in a shoemaker's shop
• CLOD-HOPPER: a ploughman or agriculture laborer
• CLOGGER: one who made wooden shoes for sale
• CLOTHIER / CLOTHESMAN: a person who made or sold clothes
• CLOWER: a person who made nails
• COACHMAN: a person who drove any coach
• COAL HEAVER: one who unloaded coal from ships
• COALMAN: a person who sold coal usually from a horse and cart, house to house
• COALY: a coal heaver
• COBBLER: a shoemaker
• COCKFEEDER: a person who looked after fighting cocks
• CODMAN: a fish seller
• COGMEN: men who bought and sold a coarse cloth called cogware
• COILLOR: [obsolete] a collector
• COISTSELL: a groom in charge of the care of a knight's horse
• COLLAR MAKER: a person who made collars
• COLLIER: a coal miner or coal merchant
• COLPORTEUR: an itinerant book salesman, most often one employed by a society to travel about and sell or distribute Bibles and religious writings
• CONEY CATCHER: a rabbit catcher
• CONFECTIONERY: a maker of sweets; sometimes, one who made medicines or poisons
• CONNOR: one who tested, examined, or inspected
• COOPER: one who made or repaired wooden casks, kegs or tubs
• COPEMAN - [1] a dishonest merchant, especially in horses; [2] a receiver of stolen goods
• COPER: a horse dealer
• COPPERSMITH: one who worked with copper
• CORDER: a colonial official whose duty was to verify cords of wood before sale
• CORDWAINER: a shoemaker or worker of leather
• CORK CUTTER: one who worked with cork
• CORN CUTTER: a podiatrist
• COSTERMONGER: originally, a seller of apples; a fruit seller, especially in the open street
• COTELER / COTYLER: one who made and repaired knives
• COUPER: one who bartered, dealt, or bought and sold
• COURANTEER: a journalist, reporter, or newspaper publisher
• COURTIER: the owner and driver of a horse and cart known as a court
• COWHERD: a cow keeper; one who tended cows
• COWPER: one who made wooden items
• CRACKER BOY - a boy employed to clean and sort slate and other impurities from the coal crushed by the crackers (machines that crush anthracite coal)
• CRAFTIMAN: a craftsman
• CRAMER: a peddler who sold books in the marketplace; a hawker
• CRATE MAN: a person who sold earthenware door to door
• CRIMPET MAKER: a person who baked crumpets
• CROCKER: one who made crockery; potter
• CROFTER: a tenant who worked a small piece of ground, having another vocation, such as fishing
• CROOKMAKER: a person who made shepherd's crooks and walking sticks
• CROPPER: a tenant who worked a piece of ground and got a portion of the crop in payment
• CROWNER: a coroner
• CURER: one who cured tobacco
• CURRIER: a craftsman who treated animal skins with oil or grease
• CUTLER: one who made, dealt, and sharpened knives, scissors, and other cutting instruments
• DAIRYMAN: a man who rented, owned, or managed a dairy and made his living by selling dairy products
• DAMSTER: in logging operations, one who supervised the building of a dam
• DAY LABORER: a man who worked on a hire-by-the-day basis
• DECOYMAN: a person employed to decoy the wild fowl, animals, etc. into a trap or within shooting range
• DELVER: ditch digger
• DIKER: one who built dikes or dug ditches or trenches
• DISHER / DISH THROWER: a person who made bowls and dishes
• DISH TURNER: one who made wooden bowls or dishes
• DOCKER: dock worker who loads and unloads cargo
• DOCK MASTER: a person in charge of a dockyard
• DOG BREAKER: dog trainer
• DOG LEECH: a veterinarian
• DOMESMAN: a judge
• DOOR-KEEPER: a janitor, porter, or guard
• DOWSER: a person who claimed to be able to find water using a forked stick or dowsing stick
• DRAINER: a person who made drains
• DRAPER: originally, a maker of woolen cloth, later a dealer in cloths of all kinds
• DRAWER: one who drew and served liquor for tavern customers

• DRAYMAN: one who drove a cart carrying heavy loads, often used in connection with a brewery
• DRESSER: [1] one who dressed another (a tire woman); [2] surgeon's assistant in a hospital
• DRESSMAKER: clothing maker
• DRIVER: the overseer of a group of slaves
• DROVER: a driver of sheep and cattle
• DRYSALTER - one who dealt in salted or dried meats, pickles, sauces, chemical, and dyes
• DUFFER: a peddler or hawker who sold cheap or trashy goods
• DUSTMAN: a janitor or garbage man
• DYER: one who dyed material
• EARER: a ploughman
• EGGLER: an egg or poultry dealer
• ELYMAKER: oil maker
• EMBOSSER: a person who molded or carved designs that were raised above the surface of the material
• EMPRESARIO: a man who performed a specific deed, such a importing a certain number of settlers, in return for land grants and power; land broker, settlement scheme promoter, showman
• EMPTOR: a buyer
• ENGRAVER / ETCHER: one who cut or carved designs or lettering in metal or stone
• ENUMERATOR: census taker
• EREMITE: hermit
• ESSENCE PEDDLER: one who sold medicines, flavorings, elixirs, etc.
• EXCISEMAN: a government official who collected excises (taxes)
• EYER: a person who made eyes in needles used for sewing; also called a Holer
• FACTOR: a commissioned agent; one who sold goods for another in his own name and received a commission
• FAGETTER: a person who made up faggots into bundles; seller of firewood
• FANNER: one who winnowed (separated the chaff from the grain by means of air movement) grain with a fan
• FARRIER: a blacksmith or one who shoes horses
• FASHIONER: one who fashioned or formed anything, especially clothing
• FEATHER-BEATER: one who cleaned feathers
• FEATHER-DRESSER: a person who cleaned and prepared feathers for sale
• FEATHERMAN: a dealer in feathers and plumes
• FELLER: a woodcutter
• FELLMONGER: one who removed hair or wool from hides in preparation for leather making; a dealer in animal skins and hides, especially sheepskin
• FELTER: a worker in the hat making industry
• FENCE VIEWER: a person legally appointed to inspect and report on the condition of fences.
• FERRER: a smith who worked in iron
• FISH FAG: a woman who sold fish
• FLAX DRESSER: one who prepared flax prior to spinning
• FLESHER: [1] a butcher; [2] one who worked in a tannery
• FLESHMONGER: one who dealt in flesh; a pimp
• FLETCHER: a maker of and dealer in bows and arrows
• FLOATER: a vagrant
• FLUSHERMAN: a person who cleaned out water mains
• FLYING STATIONER: a street broadsheet seller
• FOGGER: [1] a peddler who carried small wares from village to village; [2] a low-class lawyer; [3] a middleman in the nail and chain trade; [4] an agricultural laborer who fed cattle
• FOOT-BOY: a servant or attendant in livery
• FOOT-MAIDEN: a female attendant
• FOOTMAN: a servant who would run errands among his other duties
• FORGER: blacksmith
• FORESTALLER: one who bought goods before they come to market in order to raise the price
• FOSSETMAKER: a person who made faucets for ale-casks
• FRAME SPINNER: a worker on a loom
• FRINGEMAKER: one who made fringes or ornamental borders of cloth
• FRIPPERER: one who bought and sold old clothes
• FRISEUR: a hair dresser
• FRUITERER: a person who bought and sold fruit
• FRUITESTERE: a female fruit seller
• FULKER: a pawnbroker or money lender
• FULLER: a person who fulled (processed) cloth by increasing the weight and bulk of fabric by shrinking, beating, or pressing it
• FURBISHER: a person who polished armor
• FURNER: a baker; one in charge of the ovens
• FURRIER: one who bought, sold, and/or made furs
• FUSTIAN WEAVER: a maker of corduroy
• GAFFER: a headman or foreman of a work gang
• GANGREL: a vagrant or roving beggar
• GANNEKER: an alehouse keeper
• GAOLER: a jailer
• GARCION: a serving man or groom, usually a young man or boy
• GATER: a watchman
• GATWARD: a goat keeper
• GAUNTER: a glover
• GELDER: castrator of animals, especially horses
• GILDER: one whose occupation was to overlay an item with gold leaf
• GINOUR: an engineer
• GIRDLER: one who made girdles
• GLAZIER: a glasscutter; a person who glazed pottery, paper, etc.
• GOLDSMITH: a banker; one who dealt in articles made of gold; a craftsman who makes vessels and ornaments of gold
• GOOSE HERD: one who herded geese
• GOOSE HERDER: an itinerant tailor
• GRACE WIFE: a midwife
• GRAFFER: a notary or scrivener
• GRAINER: one who produced artificial grain in wood
• GRANGER: a farmer, bailiff, or steward of a farm
• GRAVER: one who carved or engraved letters or figures in stone
• GRAZIER: one who pastured and raised cattle for market
• GREEN GROCER: a retailer of greens
• GREENSMITH: worker in copper or latten
• GRINDER: one who operated a grinding machine in any of several trades
• GUMMER: a person who improved old saws by deepening the cuts
• HABERDASHER: one who sold men's furnishings, i.e. hats, shirts, handkerchiefs, gloves, etc.
• HACKNER: one who made or used hoes, mattocks, etc.
• HACKNEY MAN: one who rented horses and carriages
• HAIRWEAVER: weaver of cloth composed wholly or partly of horsehair
• HAND WOMAN: a midwife; a female attendant
• HARLOT: [1] loose woman; [2] vagabond, beggar, rogue; [3] male servant, attendant or menial
• HARPER: a performer on the harp
• HATCHELER: one who cleaned or dressed flax
• HAWKER: an itinerant peddler or huckster
• HAYMONGER: a dealer in hay
• HAYWARD: an officer formerly charged with the repair of cattle fences and the retention of cattle in the town common.
• HEDGER: one who planted or trimmed hedges
• HEELMAKER: one who made shoe heels
• HENCHMAN: a horseman or groom
• HEWER: a miner who cut coal, stone; a face worker in a mine
• HIGGER: a person who peddled merchandise
• HIGHWAYMAN: a robber who worked the public roads
• HIND a farm laborer, household or domestic servant
• HOBBLER: [1] a soldier on horseback; [2] one who towed a boat with a rope along a river bank
• HOD: a bricklayer's laborer
• HODMAN: a mason's helper
• HOGGARD: a pig drover
• HOOPER: a cooper; one who put the hoops on casks or tubs
• HORNER: a worker in horn making spoons, combs, or musical horns
• HORSE-CAPPER: a dealer in worthless horses
• HORSE COPER: a horse dealer or breeder
• HORSE COURSER: a man who keeps race horses
• HORSE LEECH: veterinarian
• HOSIER: a retailer of stockings, socks, gloves, nightcaps, etc.
• HOSTLER: [1] a stableman or groom; [2] one who serviced railroad engines
• HOSTELER: one who received and lodged guests
• HOUSE JOINER: one who built house frames
• HOUSEWRIGHT: a carpenter or house builder
• HOYMAN: a person who engaged in the carriage of goods and passengers by water
• HUCKSTER: a peddler or salesman
• HUSBANDMAN: farmer
• ICEMAN: an ice dealer; one who delivered ice to customers
• INFIRMARIAN: a person in charge of an infirmary
• INNHOLDER: an innkeeper
• INTELLIGENCER: a spy
• INTENDANT: a director of a public or government business
• INTERFACTOR: a murderer
• IRONMASTER: the owner or manager of an iron foundry
• IRONMONGER: a dealer in iron and hardware
• IRON SMITH: blacksmith; worker in iron
• IVORY WORKER: one who made such things as piano keys, combs, billiard balls, and buttons
• JACK: a young male assistant, sailor, or lumberjack
• JACKSMITH: a maker of lifting machinery
• JAGGER: a carrier, carter, peddler or hawker; in mining, a man who carried ore on a pack-horse from a mine to the smelter; a boy who had charge of the jags or train or trucks in a coal mine