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Working on my own fancestors, I put together a little list of eight-letter occupations~! A lot of these are probably more suited for peasants and lowbloods, but here you go!

Working on my own fancestors, I put together a little list of eight-letter occupations~! A lot of these are probably more suited for peasants and lowbloods, but here you go!

AERONAUT        - balloonist or a trapeze artist in the circus or music halls
ALDERMAN     - senior councillor one position down from Mayor in the local council
APIARIAN     - beekeeper
APRONMAN     - mechanic
ARMOURER     - made suits of armour or plates of armour for buildings or ships etc.
AVENATOR     - hay and forage merchant
BACKMANN      - baker
BALISTER     - archer most commonly a crossbowman
BANDSTER     - bound the wheat sheaves after harvest
BANKSMAN     - employed in the mining industry being in charge of the cages at the pit head 
BARTONER     - in charge of the monastic farm, also known as a barton
BELHOSTE     - tavern keeper
BIRLYMAN     - in Scotland a ground officer or parish arbiter
BLEMMERE     - plumber
BLOODMAN     - used leeches for letting blood, this was thought to be a cure for many ailments
BOARDMAN     - truant officer who checked school attendance.
BONDAGER     - female worker on a farm who was bonded
BONDSMAN     - stood bond or surety for another where a bond was required by law
BONIFACE     - keeper of an inn
BOOTHMAN     - corn merchant
BOTTILER    - made leather containers for holding liquids eg wine flasks or water bottles
BOTTOMER     - worked down the pits moving the ore etc to the bottom of the shaft for removal
BRABENER     - weaver
BRAILLER     - made girdles
BRAKEMAN     - operated the braking mechanism on trains and trams
BRASILER     - dyer
BREWSTER     - female brewer or brewer
BROWGIRL    - female employed at the pit head
BULLOCKY     - attended to the daily needs of cattle 
BUMMAREE     - middle man between the wholesaler and the retailer at the fish markets
BURNEMAN     - carrier of barm or water for brewers
BURYEMAN     - grave digger
BUSHELER     - tailor’s helper
CAFENDER     - carpenter
CALCINER    - burnt bones to make powdered lime
CALENDER    - listed documents
CAMISTER    - minister of the cloth
CAMPANER    - bell maker
CANDYMAN    - traveling candy salesman and also slang name for a baliff
CANVASER    - made canvas
CARNIFEX    - butcher
CATAGMAN    - cottager
CHALONER     - dealer in shalloon, a material
CHAUNTER     - street entertainer who sung ballads
CHANDLER     - candle seller, grocer, provisioner, usually associated with provisioning ships
CHAPELER     - made and sold hats
CHINGLOR     - rooftiler who used wooden shingles
CLASSMAN     - unemployed laborer
CLAVIGER     - servant
CLERICUS     - clerk
CLOTHIER     - who made or sold clothes
COACHMAN     - drove any coach
COBLEMAN     - used a flat bottomed boat for fishing
CORDINER     - originally term used for one who worked with Cordovan
CORPORAL    - man in charge of underground haulage hands
CUSTOMER     - customs tax collector
DAIRYMAN     - worker or owner of a dairy farm or seller of dairy products
DECOYMAN     - employed to decoy the wild fowl, animals etc into a trap or within shooting range
DEVILLER     - operated the devil, a machine that tore rags used in the textile industry
DOMESMAN     - judge
DOMESTIC    - household servant
DRAGOMAN     - acted as interpreter or guide in Turkish or Arabic
DRAGSMAN     - driver of a small stage coach or carriage used for public transport or private hire
ELLERMAN     - who sold oil used for lamps and known as an oilman
ELYMAKER     - oilmaker
EMBOSSER     - who moulded or carved designs that were raised above the surface of the material
FAGETTER     - made up faggots into bundles, seller of firewood
FALCONER    - breeds, trains, or hunts with hawks
FANCYMAN    - pimp
FERRETER    - dealer in or manufacturer of ferret, ie. silk tape
FEWTERER    - keeper of hounds, for hunting or coursing
FINISHER     - operated machine giving final touches to a manufactured article in various trades
FLETCHER     - arrowsmith (from French fleche).
FOOTPOST     - letter carrier or messenger who travelled on foot
FORESTER     - game warden or forest ranger
FORGEMAN     - blacksmith or assistant (coachsmith 18th century Derbyshire)
FREEDMAN     - one released from slavery
GAMESTER     - gambler or prostitute
GANGSMAN     - foreman
GANNEKER     - tavern keeper
GARTHMAN     - owner or worker of a fish trap
GATHERER     - glassworker who inserted the blow iron into the molten glass ready for the blower
GAVELLER     - an officer fo the Crown who granted the right to work a mine, usually female
GEOMETER     - skilled in geometry
GORZEMAN     - seller of gorse or broom
HANKYMAN     - a travelling magician in Victorian/Edwardian England
HATCHLER     - combed out or carded flax
HEADSMAN     - executioner
HENCHMAN     - horseman or groom
HUCKSTER     - sells small wares
HUISSHER     - usher or door attendant
HURRIERS     - term applied to the girls who were employed as coal-drawers in the coal industry
JAPANNER     - one who covers with a hard brilliant coat of any of several varnishes
JONGLEUR     - traveling minstrel
KEMPSTER     - wool comber
LATTENER     - brass worker
LAVENDER     - washer woman
LOADSMAN     - ship’s pilot
MALENDER     - farmer
MANCIPLE     - steward
MARSHALL     - horse doctor of shoesmith
MARSHMAN     - paid to look after marshlands and tend the animals put to graze there for the season
MERCATOR     - merchant
MERETRIX    - a whore
MILESMAN    - railway worker who had a length of railway track to keep in good order
MILLPECK     - sharpener of mill stones
MULETEER     - mule driver
MULTURER     - miller
MUSICKER     - musician
NEATHERD     - cowherder
NEDELLER     - needle maker
NIGHTMAN     - one who emptied cesspits, ashpits and backyard toilets
OCCUPIER     - tradesman
OUTCRIER     - auctioneer
PADMAKER     - made small baskets used for measuring
PALISTER     - one who ensured the parks were safe and well kept
PANNIFEX     - somebody who worked in the cloth trade
PARDONER     - seller of indulgences
PARGETER     - applied ornamental plaster to buildings
PASTELER     - pastry chef
PELTERER     - one who worked with animal skins
PESSONER     - fish monger
PETERMAN     - fisherman
PEWTERER     - made pewter utensils 
PIECENER     - one who worked in a spinning mill, employed to piece together any threads which broke 
PLEACHER     - hedge layer
PREDIGER     - preacher
PUBLICAN     - innkeeper
QUARRIER     - quarry worker
REDESMAN     - was employed in maintaining mine haulage ways
REDSMITH     - goldsmith
REVENUER     - taxman who enforces tax laws on liquor
RIVERMAN    - worker on a river boat
SCAPPLER     - one who roughly shaped the stone prior to being finished by the stonemason
SCREENER     - screened the ore at the mines surface
SCRIBLER     - a minor or worthless author
SCUTCHER     - beat the flax to soften the straw in the bundles
SCULLION     - male servant who performed all the menial tasks
SEARCHER     - customs man
SEEDSMAN     - sower of seeds
SEDGEMAN     - skilled workman who applied a type of grass which was used as an early roofing material
SEMPSTER     - seamstress
SHEEPMAN     - sheep herder
SHEPSTER     - dressmaker
SHINGLER     - A roof tiler who used wooden tiles (shingles)
SHUFFLER     - yardman on the farms
SIDESMAN     - one who assisted the churchwarden
SMACKMAN     - worked on a sailing ship (as a sloop or cutter) used chiefly in coasting and fishing
SNOBSCAT     - one who repair shoes
SPALLIER     - tin worker who performs chiefly menial tasks
SPLITTER     - operated a splitting machine or one who split things by hand, e.g. stone, timber etc
SPURRIER     - maker of spurs
STALLMAN     - keeper of a market stall
STAMPMAN     - worker of an ore crushing machine
STOREMAN     - one responsible for stored goods
STREAKER     - one who prepared the body for burial
STRIPPER     - employed in the woollen trade to remove the rubbish from the carding machines
STRINGER     - made the strings for bows
SWINGLER     - one who beats flax to remove woody parts