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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. |