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Name Term description
NameWool-merchant Term description

One who deals in wool

NameWool-stapler Term description

A person who weighs wool for market, a dealer in wool

NameWorkman Term description

Labourer

NameWorkman at the coalheughs Term description

Collier or labourer at a coal mine

NameWorset-maker Term description

Worsted (woollen cloth) maker

NameWorset-man Term description

Worsted (woollen cloth) dealer

NameWorset-seller Term description

Worsted (woollen cloth) dealer

NameWowman Term description

One who deals in wool

NameWricht Term description

Craftsman

NameWright/wrigth Term description

Craftsman, carpenter

NameWriter Term description

Lawyer, notary

NameWriting master/writing-master Term description

One who teaches writing or writes out documents for others

NameWriting-master Term description

One who teaches writing or writes out documents for others

NameWS (Writer to the Signet) Term description

Lawyer, notary

NameW Term description

Will

NameW Term description

Widow

NameWID Term description

Widow

NameWHOUSE Term description

Warehouse

NameWS Term description

Writer to the Signet - an early and traditional name for a solicitor

NameWSHOP Term description

Workshop

NameWarrandice Term description

An undertaking, usually in the form of a 'clause of warrandice' in a grant, whereby the person making the grant promised to maintain and support the grantee in the property or right granted him, against all challenges made to his right or impediments concerning it which might arise after the grant was made. 'Real warrandice' was an undertaking that if the grantee were to lose his right to what had been granted, then the granted would grant him something else of equal value.

NameWrit Term description

A legal document or writing

NameWater in the heid Term description

Hydrocephalus

NameWater on the chest Term description

Pleurisy or pleural effusion