Dictionary of Ancient Occupations and Trades,
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- oar
- •a rower (of a boat); usu. one of a group of same in a galley, trireme, or other such vessel propelled by many oars. (by synecdoche)
- operative
- •a skilled worker, especially in industy;
a worker with a special skill.
- •a secret agent; a private investigator
- -or /ər/
- •suffix denoting a person or thing performing the action of a verb, or an agent more generally. (e.g. act~), (e.g. tail~). cf -er
- Orangeman
- •a member of a secret society founded in Northern Ireland (1795)
to maintain the political and religious ascendancy of Protestantism.
- •a Protestant Irishman
(=after William, Prince of Orange, later King William III of England, Scotland, Ireland) [AHD] - •a Protestant Irishman
- ordinand
- •eccl. a candidate for ordination (=the act of conferring holy orders, esp. on a priest or deacon)
- ~ ordinary
- •a person, (esp. of a judge), having immediate or ex officio jurisdiction
- •an ecclesiastical judge who may act as a bishop or his deputy
- •(the Ordinary) an archbishop in a province or a bishop in a diocese
- •(ordinary seaman) a sailor of the lowest rank, that below able-bodied seaman
- •an ecclesiastical judge who may act as a bishop or his deputy
- ordinary
- •Law a judge or other official with immediate rather than delegated jurisdiction.
- •the judge of a probate court in some states of the United States.
- ordinary keeper
- •chiefly a keeper of an inn with fixed prices
- organist
- •one who plays the organ
- ostler (=hostler)
- •a phonetic spelling of hostler, this form was formerly more common; e.g. appearing 6 times in Shakespeare's 1st Folio, vs once for hostler.
- overlord
- •a supreme lord.
- •a powerful authoritarian; a highly influential person. (e.g. the ~s of fashion)
- overseer of the poor
- •a person responsible for the relief of the poor in a township. They often assumed the role of local doctor. After the Poor Law Amendment Act of 1834 the post was abolished and replaced by the Relieving Officer
- own cousin (=cousin-german)
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