Occupations and Workers

vizier

a high official in a Muslim government (especially in the Ottoman Empire)

 

gallant

a man who attends or escorts a woman

 

gipsy

a laborer who moves from place to place as demanded by employment

 

journeyman

a skilled worker who practices some trade or handicraft

 

paperboy

a boy who sells or delivers newspapers

 

macer

an official who carries a mace of office

 

metalworker

someone who works metal (especially by hammering it when it is hot and malleable)

 

racker

an attendant who puts pool or billiard balls into a rack

 

major-domo

the chief steward or butler of a great household

 

orderly

a male hospital attendant who has general duties that do not involve the medical treatment of patients

 

quarryman

a man who works in a quarry

 

rulership

the position of ruler

 

upholsterer

a craftsman who upholsters furniture

 

charge of quarters

an enlisted man who handles his unit's administrative matters after hours

 

vestryman

a man who is a member of a church vestry

 

tool-and-die work

the craft of making special tools and dies

 

employable

a person who is qualified and ready to work

 

oculism

the craft of an oculist

 

subeditor

an assistant editor

 

language teaching

teaching people to speak and understand a foreign language