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Name Term description
NameFlax-manufacturer Term description

One who works with flax to make linen

NameFlax-merchant Term description

One who deals in flax for linen manufacture

NameFlax-raiser Term description

One who works with flax to make linen

NameFlegeoure Term description

Fletcher, arrowmaker

NameFlescher/flesher Term description

Butcher

NameFlesches Term description

Butcher

NameFletcher Term description

An arrow-maker

NameFloater Term description

Plasterer (one meaning of 'to float' is to level a surface with plaster)

NameForeman Term description

One in charge of a worksite or factory workforce

NameForemast-man Term description

One in charge of the foremast on a ship

NameForester Term description

One who works to tend and maintain a forest

NameFore-worker Term description

Possibly a foreman, but possibly a type of mason, as 'forework' meant the front of a building

NameFort major Term description

An army officer in charge of a fort or barracks

NameFouller Term description

One who fulls (cleanses and thickens) cloth

NameFounder Term description

A person who casts metal

NameFrame smith Term description

Maker of shoulder frames or yokes for carrying pails

NameFree-woman Term description

Female equivalent of freeman of a burgh - a woman in possession of a the right to trade in a burgh

NameFremd bearer Term description

A bearer who is not related to the collier that is, Not his wife or daughter. See bearer

NameFrenchman Term description

Man from France

NameFresher Term description

Butcher

NameFruiter Term description

One who sells fruit to the public

NameFruitseller Term description

One who sells fruit to the public

NameFuller Term description

Person who cleanses and thickens cloth

NameFurrier Term description

One who prepares and sells furs

NameFRCSE Term description

Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh