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Name Term description
NameDragmaker Term description

Harrow maker or net maker

NameDraper Term description

Seller of cloth and thread

NameDrawer Term description

A person, often a child, who pushes or pulls a cart full of coal using ropes and chains

NameDrayman Term description

A carter

NameDrepper Term description

Seller of cloth and thread

NameDresser Term description

A surgeon's assistant

NameDriver Term description

One who drives animals drawing a vehicle

NameDrover Term description

Driver of cattle or sheep to market

NameDruggist Term description

Apothecary

NameDrummer Term description

Player of drum, employed by town or by army

NameDrysalter Term description

A dealer in salted or dry meats, pickles and sauces

NameDryster Term description

Grain drier

NameDuchess Term description

Wife of duke, highest title of nobility

NameDuchess dowager Term description

Widow of duke, highest title of nobility

NameDuke Term description

Highest title of nobility

NameDyer Term description

One who dyes cloth and prepares dyes

NameDykar/dyker Term description

Dyke (stone wall) builder

NameDyke builder Term description

Dyke (wall) builder

NameDyster Term description

One who dyes cloth and prepares dyes

NameD&S Term description

Disposition and Settlement

NameDeed of S Term description

Deed of Settlement

NameD D Term description

Doctor of Divinity

NameDG Term description

Dwelling

NameD., dau., daur. Term description

Daughter

NameDavach Term description

A measurement of land, amounting to about four ploughgates.