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Name Term description
NameB. or bach. Term description

Bachelor

NameBailer/bailie/baille/baillie Term description

Magistrate in a Scottish town or burgh

NameBailie-clerk Term description

One who documents the business of the bailies in a town

NameBailie-depute Term description

One acting as deputy to a town magistrate

NameBailiff/Balif Term description

1. The protector of fishing rights on a river; 2. Town magistrate

NameBait-wright Term description

Boatbuilder

NameBaker Term description

One who bakes bread, cakes or pastries

NameBakester Term description

One who bakes bread, cakes or pastries

NameBanker Term description

One owning or running a financial house

NameBanksman Term description

A person in charge of miner's cages at the pithead

NameBarber/barbour Term description

One who shaves others, later also cutting hair, extracting teeth and carrying out rough surgery

NameBarber-chirurgeon Term description

One who shaves others, later also cutting hair, extracting teeth and carrying out rough surgery

NameBarboner Term description

Weaver

NameBargeman Term description

A manager of a barge

NameBarker Term description

Tanner

NameBarnman Term description

Thresher

NameBaron Term description

Senior official in the Exchequer

NameBaron bailie/baron-bailze Term description

A magistrate appointed by a lord superior in a burgh of barony

NameBaron of HM Exchequer Term description

Senior official in the Exchequer

NameBaronet Term description

Junior rank of nobility

NameBaron-officer Term description

One employed to uphold the law in a barony

NameBarony officer Term description

One employed to uphold the law in a barony

NameBarrack-master Term description

One in charge of an army barracks, often a non-commissioned officer

NameBarrister Term description

Lawyer at the English Bar

NameBatcher Term description

In textiles for example Jute or flax, a person who sorted the bales of different qualities and colours into batches ready to be prepared for spinning