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Name	Term description
Name Tacksman	Term description A person who holds a lease and sublets land to others. (tacksmen were found mostly in the highlands from the 17th century, and were often a close relative of the chief. Although some of them farmed the land themselves, most lived off the difference between the low rent they paid to the chief and the rents they charged to sublet the land.)
Name Tailor	Term description One who makes men's clothing
Name Tailor burges	Term description One who makes men's clothing
Name Tailzeour	Term description One who makes men's clothing
Name Tallor	Term description One who makes men's clothing
Name Talor	Term description One who makes men's clothing
Name Tambourer	Term description Embroiderer (using hoops to hold the cloth in place)
Name Tanner	Term description A person who cures hides to produce leather
Name Tapestrier	Term description One who weaves tapestry
Name Tapsman	Term description A head servant, the person in charge of a drove
Name Tapster	Term description One who draws and serves alcohol
Name Tasker	Term description Pieceworker
Name Tavernor	Term description Innkeeper
Name Tax-gatherer	Term description One who collects revenue locally
Name Taxman	Term description Tenant of land, who sub-lets rents or tacks
Name Tea merchant	Term description One who buys and sells tea
Name Teacher	Term description One who instructs, usually in a school
Name Teller	Term description Bank clerk
Name Tenant	Term description One who rents property from another and inhabits it
Name Tenementer	Term description Holder of a tenement
Name Tennent	Term description One who rents property from another and inhabits it
Name Tenter	Term description A mechanic who repairs power looms
Name Terce-pryour	Term description Head of a priory, religious house for men
Name Thatcher	Term description A person who thatches roofs using reeds, heather or turf
Name Theicker/theiker/theikar	Term description One who roofs buildings with reeds or straw