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Name Term description
NameCabinetmaker Term description

One who makes fine furniture

NameCaddie Term description

A person who runs errands, a messenger

NameCadgear Term description

Travelling dealer, carrier

NameCadger Term description

Travelling dealer, carrier

NameCadie Term description

Cadet

NameCairter Term description

One who makes or drives carts

NameCalenderer Term description

Passed cloth through heavy rollers to give a smooth, pressed finish to the woven fabric

NameCalico printer Term description

One who prints patterns on a type of cloth

NameCalsay-maker Term description

Road-maker

NameCambric weaver Term description

One who uses a loom to make cloth from yarn

NameCambric-weaver Term description

One who uses a loom to make a type of cloth

NameCandilmaker Term description

One who makes candles

NameCandlemaker Term description

One who makes candles

NameCannoner Term description

Gunner

NameCanon Term description

Ordained minister of pre-Reformation or Episcopal church, attached to a cathedral

NameCapmaker Term description

One who makes soft headgear

NameCaptain Term description

Third level of commissioned army officer, or man in charge of boat or ship

NameCaptain-lieutenant Term description

Second level of commissioned army officer, lieutenant

NameCaptain-tailor Term description

Possibly senior regimental tailor, responsible for purchase of regimental cloth and kilt and trew making for ordinary soldiers

NameCarder Term description

A person who prepares wool for spinning by brushing with wire pads

NameCardinal Term description

Highest rank of priest in pre-Reformation or Roman Catholic church, below the Pope

NameCaroline-weaver Term description

One who uses a loom to make a type of cloth

NameCarpenter Term description

One who works with wood

NameCarpet manufacturer Term description

One who weaves carpets

NameCarrick pursuivant Term description

A member of the Lyon court