| Kachepol | A variation in the spelling of the name: catchpole. |
| Kachepoll | A variation in the spelling of the name: catchpole. |
| Kaniker | A seller of ale. Later form of ganneker. |
| Kedger | A variation in the spelling of the name: cadger. |
| Keeker | An overlooker or inspector in a coal-pit, who sees that the coal is sent up in a proper state. |
| Keeler | A keelman. |
| Keelman | Keelmen are mentioned among mariners and seamen. [According to A New Law Dictionary, by Giles Jacob, 1744] |
| Keeper of the Forest | Or chief Warden of the forest, hath the principal government over all officers within the forest. [According to A New Law Dictionary, by Giles Jacob, 1744] |
| Keller | A salt keeper. |
| Kell-maker | One who knitted a kell. In this case the word kell refers to: a woman's hair-net, cap, or head-dress. |
| Kellogg | Every website presenting a list of occupations includes this entry, with the definition being "slaughter man". This is not the name of an occupation, but rather an explanation of how a particular surname came into being. The traditional story is that the progenitor of the family killed hogs, hence the name 'kill-hog' = 'Kellogg'; and of course, the man who would kill a hog would be a 'slaughter man'. |
| Kelper | A maker of kelp. |
| Kembestere | A variation in the spelling of the name: kempster. |
| Kemester | A variation in the spelling of the name: kempster. |
| Kempstare | A variation in the spelling of the name: kempster. |
| Kempster | A comber (of wool); properly, a female comber. |
| Keng | A variation in the spelling of the name: king. |
| Kennel-raker | A raker of the gutter; a scavenger. |
| Kepegest | This name is usually associated with the occupation of 'innkeeper', but apparently that is only because of an entry in a book on surnames. Charles Wareing Bardsley published his book, English Surnames Their Sources And Significations, in 1875. He included the entry for William Kepegest with the definition of "keep guest". This then has been included in just about very website on occupations as another name for an innkeeper - one who keeps guests. |
| Keramist | A variation in the spelling of the name: ceramist. |
| Kidder | Kidders are those that badge or carry corn, dead victuals, or other merchadise up and down to sell. [According to A New Law Dictionary, by Giles Jacob, 1744] |
| Kiddier | One who buys provisions from the producers and takes them to market to sell; a badger. |
| Kin | A variation in the spelling of the name: king. |
| King | The usual title of the male sovereign ruler of an independent state, whose position is either purely hereditary, or hereditary under certain legal conditions, or, if elective, is considered to give to the elected the same attirbutes and rank as those of a (purely or partly) hereditary ruler. |
| Kinge | A variation in the spelling of the name: king. |
| Kingest | A partisan of the king. |
| King-killer | One who kills a king; a regicide. |
| Kinglet | A petty king; a king ruling over a small territory. |
| King-maker | One who makes or sets up kings. |
| King's-man | A partisan of the king; a royalist. |
| Kink | A variation in the spelling of the name: king. |
| Kippage | The company sailing on board a ship, whether passengers or mariners. |
| Kipperer | One who kippers herrings. In this case the word kippers refers: to cure (salmon, herring or other fish) by cleaning, rubbing repeatedly with salt and pepper or other spice, and drying in the open air or in smoke. |
| Kirkmaster | A churchwarden. Also, a deacon in the church, one who has the charge of ecclesiastical temporalities. |
| Kit | According to the 1811 Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue, by Captain Grose, this was a name for a dancing master, so named for his kit or cittern, a small fiddle, which dancing-masters always carry about with them, to play to their scholars. |
| Kitchener | One employed in a kitchen; esp. in a monastery, he who had charge of the kitchen. |
| Kitchenist | One employed in a kitchen; a cook. |
| Kitchen-knave | A scullion. |
| Kitchen-maid | A female servant employed in a kitchen, usually under the cook. |
| Kitchen-viewer | According to Everett B. Wilson in his book Early America At Work, published in 1963, this was one who inspected kitchens for unsafe conditions. |
| Kitchen-wench | A girl employed in the kitchen, a kitchen-maid (contemptuous). |
| Klerke | A variation in the spelling of the name: clerk. |
| Klondiker | A prospector in the Klondike. |
| Knacker | A harness-maker; a saddler. Also, one whose trade it is to buy worn out, diseased, or useless horses, and slaughter them for their hides and hoofs, and for making dogs-meat, etc.; a horse-slaughterer. |
| Knapper | One who or that which 'knaps'; one who knaps or breaks stones, flints, or the like; esp. one whose occupation is the shaping of flints by strokes of a hammer. |
| Knave | An old Saxon word, which had at first a sense of simplicity and innocence, for it signified a boy; afterwards it was taken for a servant-boy, and at length for any servant-man. Also it was applied to a minister or officer that bore the weapon of shield of his superior. [According to A New Law Dictionary, by Giles Jacob, 1744] |
| Knavess | A she-knave. |
| Knicht | A variation in the spelling of the name: knight. |
| Knict | A variation in the spelling of the name: knight. |
| Knicth | A variation in the spelling of the name: knight. |
| Knigh | A variation in the spelling of the name: knight. |
| Knight |
A servant, because anciently they were either the King's domestic servants, of his life-guards; a soldier or horseman. [UEED] Also, a title of honour bestowed by the King on such as he thinks fit to single out from the common class of gentlemen; of which there are several orders. [UEED] The British and Scottish knightly orders, during the 1700s, included: Knights-Bachelors (the lowest order, but very ancient) Knights Of The Round Table (King Arthur's knights) Knights-Bannerets (knights made in the field, by cutting off the point of their standard, and making it a banner) Knights-baronets (an order erected by King James I for several imbursements towards the plantation in Ulster) Knights Of The Bath (an order created within the limits of the Baths, who bathed themselves before their creation) Knights Of The Carpet (an order who kneel on a carpet at their creation) Knights Of The Chamber (an order created in a time of peace and in the King's or Queen's bedchamber) Knights Of The Garter (an order erected by King Edward III upon account of good success in a skirmish, wherein the King's garter was used for a token) Poor Knights Of Windsor (26 old soldiers with their seat at Windsor Castle) Knights Of The Order Of Christian Charity (an order erected by King Henry III for the benefit of poor Captains and maimed soldiers) Knights Of The Hare (created by King Edward III in France on occasion of a hare runnning between the French and English armies) Knights Of The Holy Sepulchre (an order founded by St. Helena after she had visited Jerusalem and found the cross of Jesus) Knights Of Nova Scotia (created in the West Indies by King James I) Knights Of St. Andrews (an order established in AD 809 by Archaicus, King of Scots) Knights Of The Rue A boy, youth, lad. Also, A boy or lad employed as an attendant or servant; hence, by extension, a male servant or attendant of any age. Also, a military servant or follower (of a king or some other specified superior); later, one devoted to the service of a lady as her attendant, or her champion in war or the tournament; hence also fig., and even applied to a woman. Also, name of an order or rank. In the Middle Ages: Originally, a military servant of the king or other person of rank; a feudal tenant holding land from a superior on condition of serving in the field as a mounted and well-armed man. in the fully-developed fudal system: one raised to honourable military rank by the king or other qualified person, the distinction being usually conferred only upon one of noble birth who had served a regular apprenticeship (as page and squire) to the profession of arms, and thus being a regular step in this even for those of the highest rank. In modern times (from the 16th c.): one upon whom a certain rank, regarded as corresponding to that of the mediaeval knight, conferred by the sovereign in recognition of personal merit, or as a reward for services rendered to the crown or country. |
| Knight Of The Rainbow | According to the 1811 Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue, by Captain Grose, this was a name for a footman, from the variety of colors in the liveries and trimming of gentlemen of that cloth. |
| Knight Of The Road | According to the 1811 Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue, by Captain Grose, this was a name for a highwayman. |
| Knight Of The Sheers | According to the 1811 Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue, by Captain Grose, this was a name for a tailor. |
| Knight Of The Thimble | According to the 1811 Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue, by Captain Grose, this was a name for a tailor or staymaker. |
| Knight Of The Whip | According to the 1811 Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue, by Captain Grose, this was a name for a coachman. |
| Knight Voyager | A knight errant. |
| Kniht | A variation in the spelling of the name: knight. |
| Knit | A variation in the spelling of the name: knight. |
| Knite | A variation in the spelling of the name: knight. |
| Knith | A variation in the spelling of the name: knight. |
| Knitht | A variation in the spelling of the name: knight. |
| Knoller | One who knolls. In this case the word knolls refers: to ring, toll (a bell). |
| Knotter | One who knots or ties knots. Also, a person or contrivance employed to remove knots. |
| Knycht | A variation in the spelling of the name: knight. |
| Knyght | A variation in the spelling of the name: knight. |
| Knygt | A variation in the spelling of the name: knight. |
| Knyht | A variation in the spelling of the name: knight. |
| Knyte | A variation in the spelling of the name: knight. |
| Knyth | A variation in the spelling of the name: knight. |
| Knytht | A variation in the spelling of the name: knight. |
| Knytt | A variation in the spelling of the name: knight. |
| Kokeswain | A variation in the spelling of the name: coxswain. |
| Konstabel | A variation in the spelling of the name: constable. |
| Kunsiler | A variation in the spelling of the name: counsellor. |
| Kuper | A variation in the spelling of the name: cooper. |
| Kwene | A variation in the spelling of the name: queen. |
| Kyng | A variation in the spelling of the name: king. |
| Kynge | A variation in the spelling of the name: king. |
| Kyning | A variation in the spelling of the name: king. |
| Kynnge | A variation in the spelling of the name: king. |
