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Tanner - one who tans (cures) animal hide into leather

Taper - candlewick maker or seller

Tapley - one who puts the tap in an ale cask

Tapster - a barman; a person employed to serve beer

Tasker - reaper

Tawer - one who taws (makes hide into leather without the use of tanning)

Teamster - one who drives a team (horses or oxen) for hauling

Textor - weaver

Thatcher - roofer; specifically thatch roofs

Tide waiter - customs inspector

Tinker - an itinerant mender and seller of kettles, tin pots and pans

Tipstaff - policeman

Travers - toll bridge collector

Tucker - cleaner of cloth goods

Turner - one who turns wood on a lathe into spindles

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