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Name Term description
NameStocking master Term description

One who makes stockings

NameStocking merchant Term description

One who sells stockings

NameStocking weaver Term description

One who makes stockings

NameStone carver Term description

One who works shapes or patterns on to stone

NameStone dresser Term description

A person who prepares stones for building

NameStoneware merchant Term description

One who deals in stone objects

NameStone-ware merchant Term description

One who deals in stone objects

NameStore-keeper Term description

One who maintains a store of goods

NameStore-master deputy Term description

One second in charge of a store of goods

NameStravaiger Term description

A vagrant

NameStraw plaiter Term description

A person who plaits straw for making hats

NameStudent Term description

One who studies at a university

NameSubdean Term description

Chief official of craft or trade, head of a university faculty (junior to the dean), leader of body of lawyers

NameSubtenant Term description

One who rents property from a tenant of another

NameSub-tenant Term description

One who rents property from a tenant of another

NameSuffragant Term description

Assistant (to a parson)

NameSugar boiler Term description

One who prepares sugar

NameSugar refiner Term description

One who prepares sugar

NameSupercargo Term description

Shipowner's representative on board, responsible for sale of cargo

NameSuperior Term description

A granter of land to another, who became his vassal in return for perpetual payment of feu-duty

NameSupervisor Term description

Overseer, often of customs or office work

NameSupervisor of excise Term description

Overseer, often of customs or office work

NameSupervisor of salt duties Term description

Overseer, often of customs or office work

NameSurfaceman Term description

A worker who keeps the railway bed in good repair, in mining, a person engaged in ancillary work above ground

NameSurgeon Term description

One who carries out medical operations, amputations, bleeding, etc.