| Fabricator | One who or that which frames or fashions. |
| Factor | A doer, agent. Also, a partisan, adherant, approver. Also, one who acts for another; an agent, deputy, or representative. Also, one who buys and sells for another person; a mercantile agent; a commission merchant. Also, One who has the charge and manages the affairs of an estate; a bailiff, land-steward. |
| Faggot | According to The Sailor's Word-Book, published in 1867 by William Henry Smyth, this was a name for "men who used to be hired to answer to names on the books, when the crew were mustered by the clerk of the cheque." |
| Falconar | A variation in the spelling of the name: falconer. |
| Falconare | A variation in the spelling of the name: falconer. |
| Falconer | One who hunts with falcons. Athough not necessarily an occupation, many knights became falconers to aid in hunting. |
| Falconier | A variation in the spelling of the name: falconer. |
| Fan-maker | A maker of hand-held fans. |
| Fanner | One who winnows grain with a fan. |
| Farandman | A traveller or merchant stranger. [According to A New Law Dictionary, by Giles Jacob, 1744] |
| Farmar | A variation in the spelling of the name: farmer. |
| Farmer | This name was applied to numerous activities: one who undertakes the collection of taxes, revenue, etc. Also, one who cultivates land for the owner; a bailiff, steward. Also, one who cultivates a farm, whether as tenant or owner; one who 'farms' land, or makes agriculture his occupation. Also slang an alderman. |
| Farmeress | A farmer's wife. |
| Farmerette | A woman or girl who farms land. |
| Farmor | A variation in the spelling of the name: farmer. |
| Farriar | A variation in the spelling of the name: farrier. |
| Farrier | One who shoes horses; a shoeing-smith; hence, also one who treats the diseases of horses. Also, An official who has care of the horses in a cavalry regiment. |
| Farrior | A variation in the spelling of the name: farrier. |
| Farryer | A variation in the spelling of the name: farrier. |
| Fart-catcher | According to the 1811 Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue, by Captain Grose, this was another name for a valet or footman who walked behind his master or mistress. |
| Fashionmonger | One who studies and follows the fashion or fashions. |
| Fauconer | A variation in the spelling of the name: falconer. |
| Fauconner | A variation in the spelling of the name: falconer. |
| Faukener | A variation in the spelling of the name: falconer. |
| Faulconer | A variation in the spelling of the name: falconer. |
| Faulkener | A variation in the spelling of the name: falconer. |
| Faulkner | A variation in the spelling of the name: falconer. |
| Fawconer | A variation in the spelling of the name: falconer. |
| Fawkener | A variation in the spelling of the name: falconer. |
| Feller | One who cuts down (timber); a wood-cutter. |
| Fellmonger | A dealer in skins or hides of animals, esp. sheep-skins. |
| Felter | One who makes or works with felt. |
| Feltmaker | One of the Liveried Companies of England, the feltmaker was originally one who processed beaver hair to create felt, which was utilized in the making of hats. The feltmaker eventually became a hatter, capper or haberdasher. |
| Fencer | One employed in putting up fences. |
| Fermer | A variation in the spelling of the name: farmer. |
| Fermerer | A farmer. |
| Fermour | A variation in the spelling of the name: farmer. |
| Fermoure | A variation in the spelling of the name: farmer. |
| Fermowre | A variation in the spelling of the name: farmer. |
| Ferret | According to the 1811 Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue, by Captain Grose, this was a name for a tradesman who sells goods to young unthrift heirs, at excessive rates, and then continually duns them for the debt. |
| Ferreter | One who searches for rabbits, etc. with a ferret. Also, one who searches minutely; a rummager. |
| Ferrier | A variation in the spelling of the name: farrier. |
| Ferryman | One who keeps or looks after a ferry. |
| Fesessian | A variation in the spelling of the name: physician. |
| Fesician | A variation in the spelling of the name: physician. |
| Fesisyan | A variation in the spelling of the name: physician. |
| Feuar | One who holds land upon feu. In this case the word feu refers to: a tract of land held in fee. |
| Feuterer | A variation in the spelling of the name: fewterer. |
| Fever | A smith. Note: many websites give the meaning of this word as 'blacksmith', but the name is derived from the Latin, faber which does not denote blacksmith, or any other particular type of smith. |
| Fewterer | A keeper of greyhounds. Also, in a wider sense, an attendant. Also with defining word prefixed; as fox-, yeoman-fewterer. |
| Fewtrer | A felt-maker, a worker in felt. |
| Filibuster | Freebooter. Also, one of a class of piratical adventurers who pillaged the Spanish colonies in the West Indies during the 17th c. Also, a member of any of those bands of adventurers who between 1850 and 1860 organized expeditions from the United States, in violation of international law, for the purpose of revolutionizing certain states in Central America and the Spanish West Indies. |
| Finder | One who or that which finds, in various senses of the vb.; one who comes upon or discovers by chance or search; one who contrives or invents, an inventor, deviser; one who discovers (a country, a scientific truth, etc.). Also, one whose occupation it is to find; spec. one who picks up the refuse of the meatmarkets. |
| Fine-drawer | One who fine-draws. In this case the phrase fine-draws refers to: to draw or sew together (two edges of a rent, two pieces of tapestry, etc.) so finely that the join is not noticed; to mend (a garment) neatly. |
| Finisher | In various trades: the workman, or machine, that performs the final operation in manufacture. |
| Fire-And-Lights | According to The Sailor's Word-Book, published in 1867 by William Henry Smyth, this was a nickname for a "master-at-arms." |
| Fireman | One who uses fire-arms; a gunner. Also, one who attends to a furnace or the fire of a steam-engine. Also, one who is employed to extinguish fires. Also, in mining, one whose duty it is to examine the workings of a mine to see that no fire-damp is present, to attend to the blasting, etc. |
| Firemaster | An officer of artillery who superintended the manufacture of explosives or fireworks. |
| Fire-worker | One who has to do with fireworks or explosives in war; spec. an artillery officer, under the fire-master. Also, one who makes fireworks, a pyrotechnist. |
| First | According to The Sailor's Word-Book, published in 1867 by William Henry Smyth, this was a name for a "senior lieutenant; also, senior lieutenant of marines, and first captain of a gun." |
| Fiscician | A variation in the spelling of the name: physician. |
| Fiscicien | A variation in the spelling of the name: physician. |
| Fish | According to the 1811 Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue, by Captain Grose, this was a name for a seaman. |
| Fisher | One who is employed in catching fish. Now arch.; superceded in ordinary use by fisherman. |
| Fisher-boy | According to The Sailor's Word-Book, published in 1867 by William Henry Smyth, this was a name for an "apprentice in fishing vessels." |
| Fisherman | One whose occupation is to catch fish. |
| Fishmonger | One who deals in fish. |
| Fishwife | A woman who sells fish. |
| Fisician | A variation in the spelling of the name: physician. |
| Fisicien | A variation in the spelling of the name: physician. |
| Fisiscien | A variation in the spelling of the name: physician. |
| Fisissyan | A variation in the spelling of the name: physician. |
| Fisisyen | A variation in the spelling of the name: physician. |
| Fitter | One who or that which fits. Also, one who is engaged to supervise the cutting out and making of garments, or the alteration of ready-made garments to suit customers' requirements. Also, one who vends and loads coals; a coal-broker. |
| Flag-officer | According to The Sailor's Word-Book, published in 1867 by William Henry Smyth, this was a name for an "admiral." |
| Flatfoot | According to Everett B. Wilson in his book Early America At Work, published in 1963, this was a slang term for policeman. |
| Flatman | One who navigates a flat. In this case the word flat refers to: a broad, flat-bottomed boat. |
| Flauner | A confectioner. The word flaun refers to a custard. [UEED] |
| Flax-dresser | One who dresses flax. [UEED] |
| Flax-hackler | One who removes the hull from flax by pulling it through the teeth of a hatchel. |
| Flax-rippler | According to Everett B. Wilson in his book Early America At Work, published in 1963, this was one who broke off the seed pods of the flax before it was hackled. |
| Flax-wench | A female flax worker. |
| Flaybottomist | According to the 1811 Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue, by Captain Grose, this was a name for a schoolmaster, variously, a bum-brusher. |
| Fleccher | A variation in the spelling of the name: fletcher. |
| Flecchere | A variation in the spelling of the name: fletcher. |
| Flecchour | A variation in the spelling of the name: fletcher. |
| Flecher | A variation in the spelling of the name: fletcher. |
| Fledger | A variation in the spelling of the name: fletcher. |
| Fleger | A variation in the spelling of the name: fletcher. |
| Fleschar | A variation in the spelling of the name: flesher. |
| Fleschewar | A variation in the spelling of the name: Flesh-hewer. |
| Flesch-hewere | A variation in the spelling of the name: Flesh-hewer. |
| Fleschowar | A variation in the spelling of the name: Flesh-hewer. |
| Flesher | A dealer in flesh, a butcher. |
| Flesh-hewer | A butcher. |
| Flessehewer | A variation in the spelling of the name: Flesh-hewer. |
| Fletcher | One who makes or deals in arrows; occaisionally, on who makes bows and arrows. |
| Flint | According to the 1811 Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue, by Captain Grose, this was a name for a journeyman tailor. |
| Floatman | A man who manages a float. |
| Flot-mann | According to The Sailor's Word-Book, published in 1867 by William Henry Smyth, this was a name for a "sailor." |
| Flugelman | According to The Sailor's Word-Book, published in 1867 by William Henry Smyth, this was a name for a "corporal, or active adept, who exhibits the time for each motion at the word of command, to enable soldiers, marines, and small-arm men to act simultaneously." |
| Fool-finder | According to the 1811 Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue, by Captain Grose, this was a name for a bailiff. |
| Footboy | A boy-attendant. A boy (in livery) employed in the place of or to assist a footman; a page-boy. |
| Footman | An attendant or foot-servant. In early use, a runner in attendance upon a rider of rank; and later, a servant who ran before his master's carriage, called more fully a running-footman. Also, a man-servant in livery employed chiefly to attend the carriage and wait at table. |
| Footpad | A highwayman who robs on foot. |
| Forecastle-men | According to The Sailor's Word-Book, published in 1867 by William Henry Smyth, this was a name for "sailors who are stationed on the forecastle, and are generally, or ought to be, prime seamen." |
| Foremast-man | According to The Sailor's Word-Book, published in 1867 by William Henry Smyth, this was a name for a "private seaman as distinguished from an officer of a ship." |
| Forester | An officer having charge of a forest; also one who looks after the growing timber on an estate. |
| Forger | One who forges. Also, one who forges (metal) or works at a forge; a smith; a coiner (of money); also an owner of forges or rolling mills. |
| Forgeress | A female forger, fashioner, or maker. |
| Forspeaker | An attorney or advocate in a cause. [According to A New Law Dictionary, by Giles Jacob, 1744] |
| Forestaller | According to Everett B. Wilson in his book Early America At Work, published in 1963, this was one who worked as a middleman or broker. |
| Fort-major | According to The Sailor's Word-Book, published in 1867 by William Henry Smyth, this was a name for an "officer on the staff of a garrison or fortress, who has, under the commanding officer, general charge of the routine duties and of the works." |
| Foster | A forester. [UEED] This name might also refer to a carrier, the name possibly being derived from fother, meaning to carry. This name comes from Cock Lorel's Bote, a book of anonymous satirical verse published in 1510. |
| Founder | One who founds or casts metal, or makes articles of cast metal. Often in comb. with the metal or article specified, bell-, iron-, type. |
| Foundress | A woman who founds or casts metals. |
| Fowler | One who hunts wild birds, whether for sport or food, esp. with nets; a bird-catcher. |
| Framer | One who frames; a maker, contriver, inventor. |
| Framework knitter | An operative in the hosiery trade, who weaves the worsted or cotton thread up into a knitted fabric. |
| Franclaine | Is used to denote a freeman or gentleman. [According to A New Law Dictionary, by Giles Jacob, 1744] |
| Fratres pyes | Fratres pyes were certain friars, wearing black and white garments. [According to A New Law Dictionary, by Giles Jacob, 1744] |
| Free-booter | Signifies a person who fights without pay, in hopes of getting some booty. [According to A New Law Dictionary, by Giles Jacob, 1744] |
| Freeholder | One who possesses a freehold estate. |
| Friar | A variation in the spelling of the name: frier. |
| Frier | The name of an Order of religious persons. [According to A New Law Dictionary, by Giles Jacob, 1744] |
| Friperer | A variation in the spelling of the name: fripperer. [According to A New Law Dictionary, by Giles Jacob, 1744] |
| Fripperer | A dealer in cast-off clothing. There were often laws preventing a fripperer from removing lace, buttons and other accessories from clothing before reselling them. |
| Fruiterer | A dealer in fruit; a fruit-seller. Also, a fruit-grower. |
| Fruiteress | A female seller of fruit. |
| Fruitester | A fruit-woman |
| Fruitmonger | According to Everett B. Wilson in his book Early America At Work, published in 1963, this was a peddler who dealt in fruit. |
| Fueller | One who or that which supplies fuel for fires. |
| Fuller | One whose occupation is to full cloth. One who fulls, mills, or scours cloth [UEED]. The process of fulling cloth involved cleansing it of grease and compacting the fibers in order to raise the nap on the surface. According to James McDonald in his book, Wordly Wise, the name fuller was derived from the Old-English word fullere, which meant 'to roll'. This was a term used to describe how newly woven cloth was cleaned and thickened. The Anglo-Saxon word wealcan (from which the word 'walker' was derived) was the equivalent of the Old English word fullere. A 'walker', therefore, performed the same job as a 'fuller'; the two names were used interchangeably. |
| Fullman | According to The Sailor's Word-Book, published in 1867 by William Henry Smyth, this was a name for an "able seaman." |
| Furber | A variation in the spelling of the name: furbisher. |
| Furbisher | One who furbishes. To furbish is defined as: to remove rust from (a weapon, armour, etc.); to brighten by rubbing, polish, burnish. Also, to furbish was: to brush or clean up (anything faded or soiled); to give a new look to (an object either material or immaterial); to do or get up afresh, renovate, revive. |
| Furmen | According to the 1811 Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue, by Captain Grose, this was a name for aldermen. |
| Furnar | A variation in the spelling of the name: furner. |
| Furnarius | A variation in the spelling of the name: furner. [According to A New Law Dictionary, by Giles Jacob, 1744] |
| Furner | One who has charge of an oven; a baker. |
| Furnitor | (obs.) Furner. |
| Furnour | A variation in the spelling of the name: furner. |
| Furrier | There are two descriptions of this name. A dealer in or dresser of fur or furs. Also, One who went in advance of an army, etc. to secure and arrange accomodation, etc. a purveyor, quarter-master; hence also a courier, harbinger. |
| Futerer | A variation in the spelling of the name: fewterer. |
| Fyciscien | A variation in the spelling of the name: physician. |
| Fysician | A variation in the spelling of the name: physician. |
| Fysiscien | A variation in the spelling of the name: physician. |
