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Acater - ship's chandler, one who supplies food provisions to a ship

Accipitrary - falconer

Accomptant - accountant

Accoucheur - one who assists women in childbirth, midwife

Ackerman, Acreman - ploughman, ox herder

Actuary - accountant

Affeeror - official in the manorial courts responsible for assessing the monetary penalty and collecting taxes and dues, assessor

Alchemist - medieval chemist who claimed to be able to turn metal into gold

Ale Conner - official who tested the quality and measure of ale served in public houses

Ale-draper, Ale Draper - a tapster, seller of ale

Ale-tunner, Ale Tunner - one who worked among and on "tuns," great hogshead barrels used to store ale in medieval times

Ale-wife, Alewife - landlady of an ale house, or ale stand

All Spice - grocer

Almoner - one who distributes alms, provides for the needy; in Britain may also refer to a hospital social worker

Amanuensis - stenographer, one who takes dictation

Amen Man - parish clerk

Ankle Beater - young person who helped drive cattle to market

Apiarian - beekeeper

Apiculteur - beekeeper (French)

Apparitor - official who summoned witnesses for the ecclesiastical courts

Apothecary - One that prepares and sells drugs and medicines, a pharmacist

Archiator - doctor, physician

Armiger - squire who carried the armor of a knight

Arpenteur - land surveyor (French)

Arrimeur - stevedore, one who is employed in the loading and unloading of ships (French)

Artificer - a skilled craftsman or artisan; an enlisted military man responsible for upkeep of weapons and small arms; or an inventor

Aubergiste - inn keeper (French)

Aurifaber - a goldsmith, or one who works with gold

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