Dictionary of Old Occupations
Definitions of jobs Skinner - Soap Licker
Skinner: a Furrier - skinned animals for their pelts, or seller of animal skins.
Skip Maker: made mining skips, which were used to hoist ore up mine shafts to the surface.
Skipper: person in charge of a ship.
Slaper: prepared clay for a Potter. Also called a slapper.
Slasher: operated a slasher sizing machine, which applied starch to warp in order to strengthen the weave.
Slate River: made roofing slates by cutting slate blocks. Comes from the word 'rive', meaning to separate by striking.
Slater: constructed or maintained slate roofing.
Slaymaker: manufactured slays, which are weaving instruments. However, may also describe a person who manufactured wheeled carts, the oxen-driven variety formerly known as sleighs.
Slinger: winched goods onto and off transport ships.
Slopseller: a merchant who sold working clothes such as butcher's aprons etc.
Slubber: worked in the textile industry, separated combined slivers into rovings (aka slubbings) for use in the spinning process.
Slubber Doffer: worked in the textile industry, removed the empty bobbins from looms after the rovings (slubbings) had been removed.
Slubbing Frame Fitter: worked in the textile industry, operating the slubbing frame which added twist before winding slubbings onto bobbins.
Smallware Maker: produced smallware, which is a term describing ribbons and the like.
Smelter: foundry worker, smelted metal ore.
Smith: could refer to any type of smith, e.g. Blacksmith, Whitesmith etc. As an aside, if you are researching your family tree and looking into the Smith surname you might be interested in the theory that the Smith name does not derive from a blacksmith, but rather from a military man such as a common solider – ‘smith’ meaning ‘person who smites’. It could explain why the name ‘Smith’ is so prevalent.
Smoke Doctor: chimneysweep, or person who built chimneys.
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Snob: Cobbler.
Snobscat: Cobbler.
Snuffer Maker: produced candle snuffers. These may have been the small metal cup variety used to smother the flame, or a scissor-like tool which was used to trim candle wicks.
Soap Boiler: alternative name for a Soap Maker.
Soap Licker: another term for a Soap Maker.
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