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Yagger - peddler

Yardman - 1) a rail worker; 2) a farmer

Yatman - doorkeeper or gatekeeper

Year man - one who hired himself out for a year's work at a time, usually agricultural

Yeoman - 1) a farmer who owned his own land; 2) a ship's storeman

Yowler - assistant to a thatcher who held the yowles of straw

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