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Name Term description
NamePeriwig maker/periwig-maker Term description

<p>One who makes wigs and hairpieces for men and women

NamePerson Term description

Parish clergyman, usually pre-Reformation

NamePeruke-maker Term description

One who makes wigs and hairpieces for men and women

NamePeuterer Term description

Worker in pewter

NamePeutherer Term description

Worker in pewter

NamePeutrar Term description

Worker in pewter

NamePewder-man Term description

Worker in pewter

NamePewdirer Term description

Worker in pewter

NamePewterer/pewtherer Term description

Worker in pewter

NamePhysician Term description

Medical doctor

NamePiecer Term description

A person employed to join broken threads in a spinning factory

NamePieman Term description

One who sells pies, usually outdoors

NamePigseller Term description

One who deals in swine

NamePikman Term description

Miner who uses a pickaxe

NamePilot Term description

One who guides a boat into or out of a harbour

NamePinmaker Term description

One who makes pins

NamePipemaker Term description

One who makes water and drainage pipes

NamePiper Term description

One who plays bagpipes

NamePirivick-maker Term description

One who makes wigs and hairpieces for men and women

NamePirn-winder Term description

A person who winds yarn onto bobbins or spools for weaving

NamePit sawyer Term description

The bottom sawyer in a sawpit

NamePit shanker/shanksman Term description

A person who works in a coal pit or saw pit, especially at sinking, repairing and inspecting shafts

NamePit sinker Term description

A person who works in a coal pit or saw pit, especially at sinking, repairing and inspecting shafts

NamePitman Term description

A person who works in a coal pit or saw pit, especially at sinking, repairing and inspecting shafts

NamePlanter Term description

One who works on plantations, usually sugar or tea