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Saddler - maker and repairer of saddles and bridles

Salter - one who makes or deals in salt

Savant - servant

Sawbones - physician

Sawyer - sawer of wood; carpenter

Scabbler - person who uses a scabbler (pick) to trim the sides of a tunnel

Schumacker - shoemaker or cobbler

Scribler / Scribbler - minor or worthless author

Scrivener - scribe or clerk; professional or public copyist or writer; notary public

Scrutiner - election judge

Seinter - girdle maker

Sewer rat - a bricklayer who specialized in making and repairing sewers and tunnels

Shearman - one who raised the surface of wollen cloth and then sheared it to a smooth
surface; cutter of woolen cloth

Shrieve / Shriever - sheriff

Sickleman - a reaper

Slater / Slatter - roofer; tiler

Slopseller - seller of ready-made clothes in a slop shop

Snobscat / Snob - shoe repairer; cobbler

Soper - soapmaker

Sorter - tailor

Spicer - a grocer or dealer in spices

Spinster - unmarried woman; spinner (female)

Spittleman - hospital attendant

Spurrer / Spurrier - maker of spurs

Squire - country gentleman; farm owner; justice of peace

Stevedore - a dock worker or laborer who loads and unloads ship's cargos.

Stuff Gown / Stuff Gownsman - junior barrister

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