| Packer | Persons appointed to pack up herrings. [According to A New Law Dictionary, by Giles Jacob, 1744] |
| Packman | A man who travels about carrying goods in a pack for sale; a pedlar. Also, one who transports goods by means of pack-animals or in a pack on his own back. |
| Page | A boy or lad employed as a servant or attendant; hence a male servant in the lowest grade in his line of service, corresponding to an apprentice in trade; one whose part it is to assist and learn from an upper or more experienced servant or officer. |
| Painter | A workman who coats or colours the surface of things (as woodwork, ironwork, etc.) with paint. |
| Paintour | A variation in the spelling of the name: painter. |
| Paladin | According to The Sailor's Word-Book, published in 1867 by William Henry Smyth, this was a name for a "knight-errant." |
| Palaser | A variation in the spelling of the name: paliser. |
| Palesser | A variation in the spelling of the name: paliser. |
| Palingman | A man who deals in eels. Seems to be a merchant denizen, one born within the English Pale. [According to A New Law Dictionary, by Giles Jacob, 1744] |
| Paliser | A maker of palings or fences. Also, One who has charge of a park. |
| Palliser | A variation in the spelling of the name: paliser. |
| Pandoratrix | An alewife that both brews and sells ale or beer. [According to A New Law Dictionary, by Giles Jacob, 1744] |
| Paneler | A saddler. Although this definition does not appear in any source per se, the verbal phrase, to panel meant to furnish (a saddle) or pad. |
| Pannierman | A man in charge of a pannier or panniers esp. a hawker of fish, etc., who conveys his goods to market in panniers. A 'pannier' was a basket of considerable size. It was noted, in the 1700s as "a dorser or basket to carry bread on horseback". [UEED] A pannierman was also one who winds the horn or rings the bell at the Inns of Court. [UEED] |
| Panter | A variation in the spelling of the name: painter. |
| Pantler | One who was in charge of the "pantry", which was where the bread was stored. |
| Paperboy | A boy employed to sell newspapers. |
| Paper-colourer | One who adds colour to paper in its manufacture. |
| Paperer | One who papers; spec. one who papers a room, a paper-hanger; one who fixes pins in paper, as the final process in their manufacture. |
| Paper-hanger | A person whose business it is to cover or decorate the walls of rooms, etc., with paper-hangings. |
| Paper-maker | One who makes or manufactures paper. |
| Paperman | A man employed in some way about paper, as a paper-maker, paper-hanger, etc.; one who sells or supplies papers. |
| Paper-marbler | One who creates marbelized paper by floating oil paints on water, then transferring such to the paper surface. |
| Paper-miller | A man who works in a paper mill. |
| Paper-seller | One who deals in paper. |
| Paper-stainer | One who stains or colours paper. Also, a maker of paper-hangings. |
| Parasitus | A word used for s domestick servant. [According to A New Law Dictionary, by Giles Jacob, 1744] |
| Parchemener | A variation in the spelling of the name: parchmenter. |
| Parchementer | A variation in the spelling of the name: parchmenter. |
| Parchmenter | A maker or seller of parchment. Also, a maker of parchment-lace. |
| Parchemyner | A variation in the spelling of the name: parchmenter. |
| Pardoner | A person licensed to sell papal pardons or indulgences. |
| Pargeter | A plasterer; a whitewasher. In this case the word parget refers to plaster spread upon a wall, ceiling, etc.; whitewash. |
| Parish-bull | According to the 1811 Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue, by Captain Grose, this was a name for a parson. |
| Paritor | An apparitor or summoning officer of an ecclesiastical court. |
| Parker | A man who has charge of a park; a park-keeper. |
| Parlour-maid | A female domestic servant who waits at table in houses where indoor men-servants are not kept. |
| Parmenter | A tailor. |
| Parson | Parson signifies the rector of a church, because for his time he represents the Church, and in his person, the Church may sue and defend her Right. [According to A New Law Dictionary, by Giles Jacob, 1744] |
| Parson's Journeyman | According to the 1811 Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue, by Captain Grose, this was a name for a curate. |
| Pastisar | A variation in the spelling of the name: patisser. |
| Pastry-cook | One whose occupation it is to make pastry or articles of food in which pastry is an essential part; now esp. one who makes such articles for public sale. |
| Pasturer | One who pastures cattle, a herdsman or grazier. |
| Patesar | A variation in the spelling of the name: patisser. |
| Patisser | A seller of pastry, a pastry-cook. |
| Patissier | One who makes patisserie; a pastry-cook. |
| Patron | According to The Sailor's Word-Book, published in 1867 by William Henry Smyth, this was a name for a "master of a merchant vessel or coaster in the Mediterranean." |
| Pattener | A patten maker. The name 'patten' was applied at different periods to various kinds of foot-gear, either to such as the feet were slipped into without fastening, to wooden shoes or clogs, or to the thick-soled shoes, 'chopins', or 'corks', formerly worn by women to heighten their stature. The patten was also described as "a sort of wooden shoe with a supporter of iron". [UEED] |
| Pattenmaker | A maker of pattens. |
| Patticear | A variation in the spelling of the name: patisser. |
| Pavier | A variation in the spelling of the name: pavior. |
| Pavior | One who paves or lays pavements. |
| Paviser | According to The Sailor's Word-Book, published in 1867 by William Henry Smyth, this was a name for a "soldier who was armed with a pavise or buckler." |
| Pavyer | A variation in the spelling of the name: pavior. |
| Payge | A variation in the spelling of the name: page. |
| Paymaster | According to The Sailor's Word-Book, published in 1867 by William Henry Smyth, this was a name for a "purser, the officer superintending the provisioning and making payments to the crew." |
| Paynteore | A variation in the spelling of the name: painter. |
| Paynter | A variation in the spelling of the name: painter. |
| Payntor | A variation in the spelling of the name: painter. |
| Payntour | A variation in the spelling of the name: painter. |
| Payntoure | A variation in the spelling of the name: painter. |
| Payntur | A variation in the spelling of the name: painter. |
| Peat-cutter | One who cut peat for fuel. |
| Peatterer | A variation in the spelling of the name: pewterer. |
| Peauterer | A variation in the spelling of the name: pewterer. |
| Peautrer | A variation in the spelling of the name: pewterer. |
| Pedare | A variation in the spelling of the name: pedder. |
| Peddar | A variation in the spelling of the name: pedder. |
| Peddare | A variation in the spelling of the name: pedder. |
| Peddelar | A variation in the spelling of the name: pedlar. |
| Pedder | One who carried about goods for sale; a pedlar. Also, a maker of panniers, a basket-maker. Also, one who 'deals in' something in a small way, a 'retailer'. |
| Peddler | A variation in the spelling of the name: pedlar. |
| Pedeler | A variation in the spelling of the name: pedlar. |
| Peder | A variation in the spelling of the name: pedder. |
| Pedlar | One who goes about carrying small goods for sale (usually in a bundle or pack); a travelling chapman or vendor of small wares |
| Pedlare | A variation in the spelling of the name: pedlar. |
| Pedler | A variation in the spelling of the name: pedlar. |
| Pedlere | A variation in the spelling of the name: pedlar. |
| Peeler | A cowboy. Also, a nickname given to members of the Irish constabulary, founded under the secretaryship (1812-18) of Mr. (afterwards Sir) Robert Peel; hence subsequently also to policemen in England. |
| Pege | A variation in the spelling of the name: page. |
| Peincter | A variation in the spelling of the name: painter. |
| Pellipar | A dresser of skins or hides; a skinner. |
| Pelliper | A variation in the spelling of the name: pellipar. |
| Pelterer | A dealer in peltry, a fellmonger; a furrier. |
| Penter | A variation in the spelling of the name: painter. |
| Peoddare | A variation in the spelling of the name: pedder. |
| Pepperer | A dealer in pepper and spices; a grocer. |
| Perambulator | One who performs a perambulation for determining boundaries. In this case the word perambulation refers to: the walking of Justices or other Officers about the forest, in order to survey and set down the bounds of it. [UEED] |
| Perawick-maker | A variation in the spelling of the name: periwig-maker. |
| Perawicke-maker | A variation in the spelling of the name: periwig-maker. |
| Percher | A workman employed in perching cloth. In this case the word perching refers to: stretch (cloth from the loom) upon a perch for the purpose of examining and burling, or detecting and removing imperfections, such as knots or holes, or (formerly) of raising the nap by hand-cards. |
| Perchementer | A variation in the spelling of the name: parchmenter. |
| Perchmener | A variation in the spelling of the name: parchmenter. |
| Perchmenter | A variation in the spelling of the name: parchmenter. |
| Perchmentier | A variation in the spelling of the name: parchmenter. |
| Perchmyner | A variation in the spelling of the name: parchmenter. |
| Perchmynere | A variation in the spelling of the name: parchmenter. |
| Perchymenter | A variation in the spelling of the name: parchmenter. |
| Perewake-maker | A variation in the spelling of the name: periwig-maker. |
| Perewig-maker | A variation in the spelling of the name: periwig-maker. |
| Perewige-maker | A variation in the spelling of the name: periwig-maker. |
| Perewyke-maker | A variation in the spelling of the name: periwig-maker. |
| Periweg-maker | A variation in the spelling of the name: periwig-maker. |
| Periwick-maker | A variation in the spelling of the name: periwig-maker. |
| Periwicke-maker | A variation in the spelling of the name: periwig-maker. |
| Periwig-maker | A wig-maker. The periwig was an artificial imitation of a head of hair (or part of one); worn formerly, first by women and then by men, as a fashionable headdress; retained by judges, barristers, etc., as part of their professional costume; used by actors as a part of their make-up, and generally as a means of personal disguise, a concealment of premature grey hairs, or a covering for baldness; a wig. |
| Periwike-maker | A variation in the spelling of the name: periwig-maker. |
| Periwyg-maker | A variation in the spelling of the name: periwig-maker. |
| Perrewig-maker | A variation in the spelling of the name: periwig-maker. |
| Perriwig-maker | A variation in the spelling of the name: periwig-maker. |
| Perriwigg-maker | A variation in the spelling of the name: periwig-maker. |
| Perriwigge-maker | A variation in the spelling of the name: periwig-maker. |
| Perruck-maker | A variation in the spelling of the name: peruke-maker. |
| Perrucke-maker | A variation in the spelling of the name: peruke-maker. |
| Perrucq-maker | A variation in the spelling of the name: peruke-maker. |
| Perruke-maker | A variation in the spelling of the name: peruke-maker. |
| Perruque-maker | A variation in the spelling of the name: peruke-maker. |
| Perrywig-maker | A variation in the spelling of the name: periwig-maker. |
| Perrywigge-maker | A variation in the spelling of the name: periwig-maker. |
| Perucke-maker | A variation in the spelling of the name: peruke-maker. |
| Perug-maker | A variation in the spelling of the name: peruke-maker. |
| Peruke-maker | A wig-maker. The peruke was: a natural head of hair. (In early use, distinguished as a false or artificial peruke.) A skull-cap covered with hair so as to represent the natural hair of the head; a periwig, or wig. |
| Perukier | A wig-maker. |
| Peruque-maker | A variation in the spelling of the name: peruke-maker. |
| Perwick-maker | A variation in the spelling of the name: periwig-maker. |
| Perwicke-maker | A variation in the spelling of the name: periwig-maker. |
| Perwig-maker | A variation in the spelling of the name: periwig-maker. |
| Perwyke-maker | A variation in the spelling of the name: periwig-maker. |
| Perywig-maker | A variation in the spelling of the name: periwig-maker. |
| Perywygge-maker | A variation in the spelling of the name: periwig-maker. |
| Pessoner | A fishmonger. |
| Petardeer | A soldier who manages and fires a petard. In this case the word petard refers to: a small engine of war used to blow in a door or gate, or to make a breach in a wall, etc. |
| Petarder | A variation in the spelling of the name: petardeer. |
| Petardier | A variation in the spelling of the name: petardeer. |
| Peterman | A fisherman; formerly, app. one who practised a particular kind of fishing. |
| Pether | A variation in the spelling of the name: pedder. |
| Pethur | A variation in the spelling of the name: pedder. |
| Petifacter | A variation in the spelling of the name: Pettifacter. |
| Petifoger | A variation in the spelling of the name: Pettifogger. |
| Petticoat-maker | A maker of petticoats, esp. of farthingales. |
| Petticoat-monger | A whore-monger. |
| Pettifacter | A legal agent who undertakes small cases. |
| Pettifogger | A legal practitioner of inferior status, who gets up or conducts petty cases; esp. in an opprobrious sense, one who employs mean, sharp, cavilling practices; a 'rascally attorney'. |
| Pettyfoger | A variation in the spelling of the name: Pettifogger. |
| Pettyfogger | Signifies a petty attorney, or inferior solicitor in the law, or rather a pretender to the law, having neither law nor conscience. [According to A New Law Dictionary, by Giles Jacob, 1744] Also, a variation in the spelling of the name: Pettifogger. |
| Petty Officer | According to The Sailor's Word-Book, published in 1867 by William Henry Smyth, this was a name for a "divisional seaman of the first class, ranking with a sergeant or corporal." |
| Petyfogger | A variation in the spelling of the name: Pettifogger. |
| Petyvoguer | A variation in the spelling of the name: Pettifogger. |
| Peudrar | A variation in the spelling of the name: pewterer. |
| Peuterer | A variation in the spelling of the name: pewterer. |
| Peutherer | A variation in the spelling of the name: pewterer. |
| Pewter-carrier | One who serves in an ale-house, a potman. |
| Pewterer | A worker in pewter; one who makes pewter utensils. |
| Pewtrer | A variation in the spelling of the name: pewterer. |
| Pewtrere | A variation in the spelling of the name: pewterer. |
| Peyntar | A variation in the spelling of the name: painter. |
| Peynter | A variation in the spelling of the name: painter. |
| Peynteur | A variation in the spelling of the name: painter. |
| Peyntour | A variation in the spelling of the name: painter. |
| Peyntoure | A variation in the spelling of the name: painter. |
| Phasalle | A variation in the spelling of the name: vassal. |
| Phesicion | A variation in the spelling of the name: physician. |
| Phesicyen | A variation in the spelling of the name: physician. |
| Phesycion | A variation in the spelling of the name: physician. |
| Pheuterer | A variation in the spelling of the name: fewterer. |
| Phewterer | A variation in the spelling of the name: fewterer. |
| Philistine | According to the 1811 Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue, by Captain Grose, this was a name for a bailiff. |
| Phisician | A variation in the spelling of the name: physician. |
| Phisicien | A variation in the spelling of the name: physician. |
| Phisiciene | A variation in the spelling of the name: physician. |
| Phisicyon | A variation in the spelling of the name: physician. |
| Phisycien | A variation in the spelling of the name: physician. |
| Phizitian | A variation in the spelling of the name: physician. |
| Phycycan | A variation in the spelling of the name: physician. |
| Phycyssyon | A variation in the spelling of the name: physician. |
| Physician | One who practices the healing art, including medicine and surgery. One who is skilled in, or professes surgery. [UEED] |
| Physicien | A variation in the spelling of the name: physician. |
| Physicion | A variation in the spelling of the name: physician. |
| Physicyen | A variation in the spelling of the name: physician. |
| Physitian | A variation in the spelling of the name: physician. |
| Physition | A variation in the spelling of the name: physician. |
| Physycyen | A variation in the spelling of the name: physician. |
| Piano-tuner | According to Everett B. Wilson in his book Early America At Work, published in 1963, this is one of the few itinerant servicemen who has remained in his original business to the present time. |
| Picker | Generally, a person who picks. Also, a huntsman. This name for huntsman comes from the French, piqueur. One who picks, as with a pick-axe. [UEED] |
| Picker-maker | The maker of a picker, in a loom, the small instrument which travels backwards and forwards in the shuttle-box and drives the shuttle to and fro through the warp. |
| Picker-manufacturer | A variation of the name: picker-maker. |
| Pictor | A painter. This name is the French word for 'painter'. |
| Piggard | A variation in the spelling of the name: pigherd. |
| Pigherd | A keeper of a herd of pigs. |
| Pig-lifter | One employed in moving pig-iron. Pig-iron was: an oblong mass of metal, as obtained from the smelting furnace; an ingot. |
| Pig-maker | A manufacturer of pig-iron. Pig-iron was: an oblong mass of metal, as obtained from the smelting furnace; an ingot. |
| Pig-man | A seller of crockery; a mugger. The word, pig in this case is derived from the word, piggin, meaning an earthenware pot, pitcher, jar, or other vessel; especially one that has no specific name; a crock. Rarely a vessel of tin or wood (obs.). |
| Pig-wife | A female vendor of crockery. The word, pig in this case is derived from the word, piggin, meaning an earthenware pot, pitcher, jar, or other vessel; especially one that has no specific name; a crock. Rarely a vessel of tin or wood (obs.). |
| Pig-woman | A woman who sold roast pig at fairs, etc. |
| Pikeman | A soldier armed with a pike. In this case the word pike refers to: a weapon consisting of a long wooden shaft with a pointed head of iron or steel. Also, a man who wields a pick; a pickman; a miner; one who hews the coal with a pickaxe. Also, the keeper of a turnpike. |
| Piker | A soldier armed with a pike, a pikeman. |
| Pikesman | A variation in the spelling of the name: pikeman. |
| Pilch-maker | A maker of a pilch, which was an outer garment made of skin dressed with the hair; in later use, a leathern or coarse woolen outer garment. |
| Pilot | Pilot is he that hath the government of a ship, under the master. [According to A New Law Dictionary, by Giles Jacob, 1744] |
| Pindar | A variation in the spelling of the name: pinder. |
| Pinder | An officer of a manor, having the duty of impounding stray beasts. |
| Pinner | A pinmaker. Also, a variation in the spelling of the name: pinder. |
| Piquer | A variation in the spelling of the name: piker. |
| Pirate | According to The Sailor's Word-Book, published in 1867 by William Henry Smyth, this was a name for a "sea-robber." |
| Piscary | A fisherman; a fishmonger. |
| Piscator | A fisherman, an angler. |
| Piscenarius | Piscenarius is used in old records for a fishmonger. [According to A New Law Dictionary, by Giles Jacob, 1744] |
| Piss-prophet | According to the 1811 Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue, by Captain Grose, this was a name for a physician who judges of the diseases of his patients solely by the inspection of their urine. |
| Pistoler | A maker of pistols. |
| Pistolier | A soldier armed with a pistol. |
| Pistor | A baker. |
| Pitman | The digger of a pit or common grave. Also, A man who works in a pit or mine, esp. a coal-mine; a collier. (In some localities, applied spec. the man who attends to the pumping machinery in the pit or shaft). Also, the man who stands in a sawpit and works the lower end of the saw; a pit-sawyer. |
| Plaisterer | A plasterer. |
| Plasterer | One who works with or in plaster. |
| Plomber | A variation in the spelling of the name: plumber. |
| Plomer | A variation in the spelling of the name: plumber. |
| Plomere | A variation in the spelling of the name: plumber. |
| Plommar | A variation in the spelling of the name: plumber. |
| Plommer | A variation in the spelling of the name: plumber. |
| Plommier | A variation in the spelling of the name: plumber. |
| Plough driver | One who drives the beasts drawing a plough. |
| Ploughe dryuer | A variation in the spelling of the name: plough driver. |
| Plougher | One who ploughs; a ploughman. |
| Plough-jogger | One who jogs or pushes a plough; a ploughman (humorous or contemptuous). |
| Ploughman | A man who follows and guides the plough; often used generically for a farm-labourer or rustic. |
| Plough-wright | A maker of ploughs. |
| Plouh | A variation in the spelling of the name: plough. |
| Plower | A variation in the spelling of the name: plougher. |
| Plower-jogger | A variation in the spelling of the name: plougher-jogger. |
| Plow-wright | A variation in the spelling of the name: plough-wright. |
| Plumbar | A variation in the spelling of the name: plumber. |
| Plumber | An artisan who works in lead, zinc, and tin, fitting in, soldering and repairing the water and gas pipes, cisterns, boilers, and other work executed in these metals in the construction of a dwelling-house or other building. Originally applied to a man who dealt and worked in lead. Also, an armourer or engineering officer. |
| Plumbum worker | According to Everett B. Wilson in his book Early America At Work, published in 1963, this was another name for a plumber. |
| Plumer | A variation in the spelling of the name: plumber. |
| Plummair | A variation in the spelling of the name: plumber. |
| Plummer | A variation in the spelling of the name: plumber. |
| Plyer | According to the 1811 Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue, by Captain Grose, this was a name for a trader. |
| Podiatrist | One who practises podiatry; a chiropodist. In this case the word podiatry refers to: the diagnosis and treatment of disorders of the foot; chiropody. |
| Polterer | A variation in the spelling of the name: poulterer. |
| Porkman | A man who sells pork, a dealer in pork. |
| Portar | A variation in the spelling of the name: porter. |
| Porteir | A variation in the spelling of the name: porter. |
| Porteour | A variation in the spelling of the name: porter. |
| Porter | One who has charge of a door or gate, esp. at the entrance of a fortified town or of a castle or other large building, a public institution, etc.; a gate-keeper, door-keeper, janitor. Also, a person whose employment is to carry burdens; now esp. a servant of a railway company employed to carry luggage at a station. Also, one who or that which carries or conveys; a bearer, carrier. Porter is an officer of the Courts of Justice; but a porter in the general signification, is a carrier of things from place to place, &c. [According to A New Law Dictionary, by Giles Jacob, 1744] |
| Portere | A variation in the spelling of the name: porter. |
| Portgreve | Is a chief magistrate in certain maritime towns. [According to A New Law Dictionary, by Giles Jacob, 1744] |
| Portiere | A variation in the spelling of the name: porter. |
| Portman | In OE. use, a citizen of a town, a burgess or burgher. Also, one of a select number of citizens, chosen to administer the affairs of a borough. |
| Portour | A variation in the spelling of the name: porter. |
| Portreve | A variation in the spelling of the name: portgreve. [According to A New Law Dictionary, by Giles Jacob, 1744] |
| Porveyour | A variation in the spelling of the name: purveyor. |
| Post | A swift or speedy messenger to carry letters, &c. [According to A New Law Dictionary, by Giles Jacob, 1744] |
| Postillion | A post's guide or forerunner; also he that rides upon one of the foremost of the coach-horses, when there are six. [UEED] |
| Postman | A bearer or carrier of letters or other postal matter. orig. A courier who rode 'post'. Now, one who delivers letters, etc., sent through the post, or collects them from the letter-boxes, receiving offices, etc.; a letter-carrier. |
| Postmaster | A master of the posts; the officer who had the charge or direction of the post-messengers, whose office gradually developed into that of Postmaster-General. In the 17th and 18th c., the post-office servant at each of the stations or stages of a post-road, whose primary duty it was to carry the mails to the next stage, and subsequently, to receive and deliver or send out the letters for his own town or district. |
| Post-nointer | According to the 1811 Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue, by Captain Grose, this was a name for a house painter. |
| Pot-baker | one who bakes clay into pots, etc. |
| Pot-boy | A boy who serves drinks at a tavern. |
| Pot-founder | A maker of earthenware pots, a potter. |
| Pot-girl | A girl who serves drinks at a tavern, a barmaid. |
| Pothecary | A variation in the spelling of the name: apothecary. |
| Poticarie | A variation in the spelling of the name: apothecary. |
| Poticarye | A variation in the spelling of the name: apothecary. |
| Potman | A man employed at a public-house to attend to the pots and serve the liquor. |
| Pottecary | A variation in the spelling of the name: apothecary. |
| Potter | A maker of pots, or of earthenware vessels. Also, applied to a maker of metal pots or vessels. |
| Potticary | A variation in the spelling of the name: apothecary. |
| Pottisear | A variation in the spelling of the name: patisser. |
| Pot-woman | A woman who sells pots; a barmaid; a woman who works at pottery. |
| Pot-wrestler | The cook on a whale ship; a scullion. |
| Potycary | A variation in the spelling of the name: apothecary. |
| Poultar | A variation in the spelling of the name: poulter. |
| Poulter | An officer of the royal or other household, or of a monastery, etc. who attended to the purchase of poultry or other provisions. |
| Poulterer | One whose business is the sale of poultry (and usually hares and other game); a dealer in poultry. |
| Poultar | A variation in the spelling of the name: poulter. |
| Poultrer | A variation in the spelling of the name: poulterer. |
| Poultry-maid | A girl employed to look after poultry. |
| Poultry-man | A man who sells poultry. |
| Poultrymonger | According to Everett B. Wilson in his book Early America At Work, published in 1963, this was a peddler who dealt in poultry. |
| Poultry-woman | A woman who sells poultry. |
| Poursuivant | A messenger of the King. [According to A New Law Dictionary, by Giles Jacob, 1744] |
| Pourveour | A variation in the spelling of the name: purveyor. |
| Pourveyor | A variation in the spelling of the name: purveyor. |
| Pourveyour | A variation in the spelling of the name: purveyor. |
| Pourvoyer | A variation in the spelling of the name: purveyor. |
| Powder-monkey | According to the 1811 Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue, by Captain Grose, this was a name for a boy on board a ship of war, whose business is to fetch powder from the magazine. |
| Powlter | A variation in the spelling of the name: poulter. |
| Poyntowre | A variation in the spelling of the name: painter. |
| Praepositus-Ecclessae | Praepositus-Ecclessae is used for a Church-reve, or Church-Warden. [According to A New Law Dictionary, by Giles Jacob, 1744] |
| Praepositus-Villae | Praepositus-Villae is sometimes taken for the constable of a town; and frequently an head of chief officer of the King in any town, village, manor &c. [According to A New Law Dictionary, by Giles Jacob, 1744] |
| Pragmaticus | A practicer of the law; pettyfogger, or splitter of causes. [According to A New Law Dictionary, by Giles Jacob, 1744] |
| Preins | A variation in the spelling of the name: prince. |
| Prelate | We commonly understand to be an Archbishop or Bishop. It is a Bishop, or one who hath a dignity in the Church. [According to A New Law Dictionary, by Giles Jacob, 1744] |
| Premate | A variation in the spelling of the name: primate. |
| Prence | A variation in the spelling of the name: prince. |
| Prentice | A variation in the spelling of the name: apprentice. |
| Presbyter | A priest; an elder, or honourable person. [According to A New Law Dictionary, by Giles Jacob, 1744] |
| Press Agent | A man empoyed in connexion with a theatre or the like to attend to the advertising, and the reporting of the performances. |
| Press-corrector | A proof-reader. |
| Presser | One who is employed to press cloth, felt, etc. into shape in tailoring, hat-making, etc. Also, one who presses wool into bales. Also, one who works a press of any kind; a printer, a wine-presser. Also, in pottery, a workman who makes plates or hollow-ware by pressing the prepared clay into plaster-of-Paris moulds. |
| Press Lord | A powerful newspaper owner, a newspaper magnate, esp. one who is a member of the peerage. |
| Pressman | A man engaged in a wine-press. Also, a man who operates or manages a printing-press; esp. a hand-press printer. Also, in shoemaking: a workman who stamps out the sole-leather for boots or shoes with a press. Also, a man 'pressed' into naval or military service; an impressed man. |
| Pricker | One who pricks or goads, spec. one who professed to discover if a woman were a witch by sticking pins into her. Also, a mounted attendant at a hunt, a huntsman. |
| Pricklouse | A derisive name for a tailor. The name is derived from the phrase "prick the louse". |
| Pridgeman | A variation in the spelling of the name: prigman. |
| Priest | Priests, in general signification are any ministers of a church; but in our Law, this word is particularly used for ministers of the Church of Rome. [According to A New Law Dictionary, by Giles Jacob, 1744] |
| Prig | A tinker. Also, A thief. |
| Prigger | A mounted highwayman. |
| Priggess | A female prig. |
| Prigman | A thief. |
| Prig-napper | A horse-stealer; also a thief-taker. |
| Primat | A variation in the spelling of the name: primate. |
| Primate | One who is first in rank or importance; a chief, head, superior, leader. Also, an archbishop, or formerly sometimes a bishop, holding the first place among the bishops of a province; also applied to a patriarch or exarch of the Eastern Church. |
| Prince | A sovereign ruler; a monarch, king. Also, one who has the chief authority; a ruler, commander, governor, president; also, the head man, chief, or leader of a tribe. |
| Princs | A variation in the spelling of the name: prince. |
| Prines | A variation in the spelling of the name: prince. |
| Prins | A variation in the spelling of the name: prince. |
| Prinse | A variation in the spelling of the name: prince. |
| Printer | A person who prints in any sense of the word; one engaged in impressing or stamping marks or designs upon a surface, as a calico-printer, and (formerly) a coiner. Also, one whose business is the printing of books, etc.; the owner of a printing business (formerly usually identified with a publisher); a workman employed in a printing office. One who stains linen with figures. [UEED] |
| Probation Officer | According to the County Government And Archives In Pennsylvania, published by the Pennsylvania Historical And Museum Commission in 1947, "probation officers must perform any duties directed by the court of quarter sessions." The probation officer had general supervision over probation and parole of "neglected and dependent children", "adult first offenders", 'persons paroled from county penal institutions", and "defendants in desertion cases". |
| Procatour | A variation in the spelling of the name: proctor. |
| Procatoure | A variation in the spelling of the name: proctor. |
| Procketur | A variation in the spelling of the name: proctor. |
| Procter | A variation in the spelling of the name: proctor. |
| Proctor | A person employed to manage the affairs of another; an agent, deputy, proxy, attorney; procurator. Also, an agent for the collection of tithes and other church dues; a tithe-farmer. |
| Proctour | A variation in the spelling of the name: proctor. |
| Proctoure | A variation in the spelling of the name: proctor. |
| Procurator | A variation in the spelling of the name: proctor. |
| Procuratour | A variation in the spelling of the name: proctor. |
| Procuratoure | A variation in the spelling of the name: proctor. |
| Procurature | A variation in the spelling of the name: proctor. |
| Procutar | A variation in the spelling of the name: proctor. |
| Procutor | A variation in the spelling of the name: proctor. |
| Procutour | A variation in the spelling of the name: proctor. |
| Procutoure | A variation in the spelling of the name: proctor. |
| Procutur | A variation in the spelling of the name: proctor. |
| Professer | A variation in the spelling of the name: professor. |
| Professor | One who has made profession; a professed member of a religious order. Also, one who makes open declaration of his sentiments or beliefs, or of his allegiance to some principle; one who professes (sometimes opposed, implicitly or explicitly, to one who practices). Also, a schoolmaster, a personal tutor; spec. a secondary school headmaster. Also, one who makes a profession of any art or science; a professional man. According to James McDonald in his book, Wordly Wise, the name is derived from the Latin profiteri (to declare out loud). |
| Professour | A variation in the spelling of the name: professor. |
| Professoure | A variation in the spelling of the name: professor. |
| Profile-cutter | According to Everett B. Wilson in his book Early America At Work, published in 1963, this was one who cut silhouettes out of paper. |
| Prokeratour | A variation in the spelling of the name: proctor. |
| Proketowre | A variation in the spelling of the name: proctor. |
| Prokitor | A variation in the spelling of the name: proctor. |
| Proktur | A variation in the spelling of the name: proctor. |
| Prokture | A variation in the spelling of the name: proctor. |
| Prolocutor | A legal spokesman in a court of law; an advocate. Aso, the presiding officer of an assembly; a chairman, 'speaker'. |
| Prolocutour | A variation in the spelling of the name: prolocutor. |
| Proloqutor | A variation in the spelling of the name: prolocutor. |
| Proloquutor | A variation in the spelling of the name: prolocutor. |
| Prosecutor | one who institutes and carries on proceedings in a court of law, esp. in a criminal court. |
| Prothonotary | A principal notary, chief clerk, or recorder of a court; originally, the holder of that office in the Byzantine court; also, applied by early English writers to similar officers in other ancient countries. Also, in England, formerly, the chief clerk or registrar in the Courts of Chancery, of Common Pleas, and of the King's Bench; also, in other courts of law, in some of which the term is still in use. According to the County Government And Archives In Pennsylvania, published by the Pennsylvania Historical And Museum Commission in 1947, "the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania ruled that the prothonotary of the court of common pleas is merely the clerk of that court. As such it is his duty to keep records pertaining to all civil cases and establish dockets and books for the maintenance of such records." |
| Protonatary | A variation in the spelling of the name: prothonotary. |
| Protonotary | A variation in the spelling of the name: prothonotary. |
| Protonothayr | A variation in the spelling of the name: prothonotary. |
| Protonotory | A variation in the spelling of the name: prothonotary. |
| Protonotour | A variation in the spelling of the name: prothonotary. |
| Prouour | A variation in the spelling of the name: purveyor. |
| Provisor | One who provides, purveys, or takes charge. One who is in charge; a manager, a supervisor; an agent, a deputy. Also, one who has charge of getting provisions; a purveyor; the steward or treasurer of a house, monaastery, etc. Also, an ecclesiastic assisting an archbishop or bishop, and acting in his stead; a vicar-general; a deputy-inquisitor. |
| Provost Marshal | In this Kingdom is an officer of the King's Navy, who hath the charge of prisoners taken at sea; and it sometimes used for the like purpose on land. [According to A New Law Dictionary, by Giles Jacob, 1744] |
| Provyour | A variation in the spelling of the name: purveyor. |
| Prower | A variation in the spelling of the name: purveyor. |
| Prowor | A variation in the spelling of the name: purveyor. |
| Prowour | A variation in the spelling of the name: purveyor. |
| Prowyour | A variation in the spelling of the name: purveyor. |
| Prygman | A variation in the spelling of the name: prigman. |
| Prymat | A variation in the spelling of the name: primate. |
| Prymate | A variation in the spelling of the name: primate. |
| Prynce | A variation in the spelling of the name: prince. |
| Pryns | A variation in the spelling of the name: prince. |
| Prynse | A variation in the spelling of the name: prince. |
| Psalterion | A poet. |
| Publican | One who farmed the public taxes; hence, a tax-gatherer. Also, Any collector of toll, tribute, customs, or the like. |
| Publicane | A variation in the spelling of the name: publican. |
| Publycan | A variation in the spelling of the name: publican. |
| Pudding-sleeves | According to the 1811 Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue, by Captain Grose, this was a name for a parson. |
| Puddler | A workman employed in puddling iron. In this case, the word puddle refers to a small pool of molten metal. Also, one who works clay, etc. into puddle, or who covers or lines something with puddle. In this case, the word puddle refers to a preparation of clay, or of clay and sand, mixed with water and tempered... |
| Puddle-wife | A woman who sells puddings or sausage. |
| Pug | A bargeman. Also, A ship's boy. Also, An upper servant in a large establishment. |
| Pug-carpenter | According to the 1811 Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue, by Captain Grose, this was a name for an inferior carpenter. |
| Puggard | A thief. |
| Pulleter | A variation in the spelling of the name: poulter. |
| Pulter | A variation in the spelling of the name: poulter. |
| Pulterer | A variation in the spelling of the name: poulterer. |
| Pupilmonger | According to the 1811 Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue, by Captain Grose, this was a name for a person at a university whose business is to instruct and superintend a number of pupils. |
| Puplican | A variation in the spelling of the name: publican. |
| Puplicane | A variation in the spelling of the name: publican. |
| Pupplican | A variation in the spelling of the name: publican. |
| Pure-collector | a pure-finder. |
| Pure-finder | men engaged in collecting dogs' dung from the streets. In this case, dogs' dung was known by the name pure because of its cleansing and purifying properties in the tanning of leather. |
| Pure-gatherer | a pure-finder. |
| Purleyman | A variation in the spelling of the name: purlieuman. |
| Purlieuman | The owner of freehold land within the purlieu of a forest. In this case the word purlieu refers to: a piece or tract of landd on the fringe or border of a forest. |
| Purlman | A man who sells purl. In this case the word purl refers to: a liquor made by infusing wormwood or other bitter herbs in ale or beer. |
| Purloiner | One who purloins; a petty thief, a pilferer. |
| Purse-bearer | The bearer or carrier of a purse; one who has charge of the money of another or of a company; a treasurer, bursar. |
| Purser's Steward | According to The Sailor's Word-Book, published in 1867 by William Henry Smyth, this was a name for the "official who superintended and noted down the exact quantity and species of provisions issued to the respective messes both of officers and men." |
| Pursuivant | A variation in the spelling of the name: poursuivant. [According to A New Law Dictionary, by Giles Jacob, 1744] |
| Purvaour | A variation in the spelling of the name: purveyor. |
| Purvayer | A variation in the spelling of the name: purveyor. |
| Purvayour | A variation in the spelling of the name: purveyor. |
| Purveier | A variation in the spelling of the name: purveyor. |
| Purveior | A variation in the spelling of the name: purveyor. |
| Purveiour | A variation in the spelling of the name: purveyor. |
| Purveioure | A variation in the spelling of the name: purveyor. |
| Purveour | A variation in the spelling of the name: purveyor. |
| Purveur | A variation in the spelling of the name: purveyor. |
| Purveyer | A variation in the spelling of the name: purveyor. |
| Purveyor | One who makes preparation or prearrangement; a manager, director, steward. Also, one who procures or supplies anything necessary, or something specified, to or for others. Also, an official charged with the supply of requisites or of some necessary to a garrison, army, city, or the like. Also, an officer who provided timber for the navy. |
| Purveyoress | A female purveyor. |
| Purveyour | A variation in the spelling of the name: purveyor. |
| Purveyowr | A variation in the spelling of the name: purveyor. |
| Purvior | A variation in the spelling of the name: purveyor. |
| Purviour | A variation in the spelling of the name: purveyor. |
| Purviowre | A variation in the spelling of the name: purveyor. |
| Purvoyer | A variation in the spelling of the name: purveyor. |
| Purvyour | A variation in the spelling of the name: purveyor. |
| Puzzle-cause | According to the 1811 Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue, by Captain Grose, this was a name for a lawyer who has a confused understanding. |
| Puzzle-text | According to the 1811 Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue, by Captain Grose, this was a name for an ignorant, blundering parson. |
| Pyndare | A variation in the spelling of the name: pinder. |
| Pynder | A variation in the spelling of the name: pinder. |
| Pyndere | A variation in the spelling of the name: pinder. |
| Pynnar | A variation in the spelling of the name: pinner. |
| Pynner | A variation in the spelling of the name: pinner. |
