Dictionary of Ancient Occupations and Trades,
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- jack
- •a sailor or seaman
- jagger
- •A sailing vessel which followed the fishing fleet in order to bring the
fish to market; a sailor of same
- •A pedlar, carrier, hawker or drover
- •mining A man who carries ore on pack animals from the mine to the smelter;
- •a boy in charge of the jags or trains of ore cars in the mine
- •A pedlar, carrier, hawker or drover
- jayhawker
- •one of the free-soil guerillas in Kansas and Missouri during the
1854-1859 border disputes.
- •a Unionist gierrilla.
- Jayhawker
- •informal a native or resident of Kansas
- jeweler sp: Chiefly Brit.: jeweller
- •a maker or dealer in jewels or jewelry.
- joiner Also: joyner
- •a person who makes furniture and light woodwork.
- •a skilled carpenter.
- jointress
- •a widow who holds a jointure (=an estate settled on a widow for the period during which she survives her husband)
- jongleur
- •a wandering minstrel, poet or entertainer in medieval England and France
- journeyman
- •one who had served his apprenticeship and mastered his craft, not bound to serve a master, but hired by the day
- judge
- •a public officer appointed or elected to hear and try causes in a court of justice
- •a person appointed to decide a dispute or contest
- •Jewish hist. a leader having temporary authority in Israel in the period Joshua and the Kings.
- •a person appointed to decide a dispute or contest
- judge advocate general Also: JAG
- •mil. an officer in supreme control of the courts martial in the armed forces
- Junker /yoong'·ker/
- •G hist a young German nobleman
- •a member of an exclusive Prussian aristocratic party
- jurist
- •a legal expert, lawyer, or writer.
- •a judge or justice.
- •nowadays a person empaneled by a court for jury duty.
- •Islamic law a person licensed to teach and issue legal opinions, an Ulama (
alimah)
- •a judge or justice.
- justice
- •a magistrate.
- •a judge, esp. of a supreme court.
- justiciar
- •Eng. a chief legal and political advisor;
- •one deputized for the King in his absence
- •one entrusted with supreme control of the jurisdiction of the Law Courts of a country or large province.
- •one deputized for the King in his absence
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