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Name Term description
NameF.S. Term description

Female servant

NameFactor Term description

Estate or farm manager

NameFalconer Term description

One who trains and handles falcons and hawks

NameFarm servant Term description

A farm worker contracted to work for a farmer

NameFarmer Term description

One who tends a farm, including livestock and crops

NameFarrier Term description

Horse doctor

NameFeltmaker Term description

One who makes cloth without a loom

NameFencible Term description

Militiaman or volunteer soldier called to fight in a local or regional crisis

NameFencing master/fencing-master Term description

One who teaches fencing and sword-fighting

NameFermorar/fermour/fermourer Term description

One who tends a farm, including livestock and crops

NameFerrier Term description

Horse doctor

NameFerryman Term description

One who operates a ferry across a river or estuary

NameFeuar/fewer/fewar Term description

A person who holds lands in return for payment of feu-duty, a stipulated annual amount in cash or kind

NameFiar Term description

One who holds land in feu

NameFidlar Term description

Fiddler

NameFireman Term description

One who tends a fire, for cooking or other purposes

NameFireman in the King's kitchen Term description

One who tends a fire, for cooking or other purposes

NameFischer/fischerman Term description

One who catches fish to sell

NameFisher Term description

One who catches fish to sell

NameFishman Term description

One who catches fish to sell

NameFishmonger Term description

One who sells fish to the public

NameFish-seller Term description

One who sells fish to the public

NameFitter Term description

One who installs furnishings or machinery

NameFlaxdresser Term description

A person who carries out the early stages of preparing raw fibre (for example Jute and flax) for spinning. Hackle-pins and fluted rollers were used to comb and soften the fibre and, in the case of jute, an emulsion of oil and water (whale oil until the late 19th century) was applied to assist the process.

NameFlax-dresser Term description

One who prepares flax for working