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Name	Term description
Name Wadsetter	Term description 1. Creditor or holder of a wadset (mortgage of property). 2. A person enjoying the use and tenure of part of a landowner's estate under a mortgage arrangement
Name Wadwife	Term description ? A female wad maker - wad can mean stuffing for clothes
Name Waggoner	Term description One who drives heavy goods vehicles
Name Wagon-maker	Term description One who constructs heavy goods vehicles
Name Waiter	Term description Watchman
Name Waker	Term description Fuller of cloth
Name Walker/waulker	Term description Person who cleanses and thickens cloth
Name Walxmaker	Term description One who prepares wax for use in candles, etc.
Name Warden	Term description One in charge of hospital or charity home
Name Warrandice	Term description An undertaking, usually in the form of a 'clause of warrandice' in a grant, whereby the person making the grant promised to maintain and support the grantee in the property or right granted him, against all challenges made to his right or impediments concerning it which might arise after the grant was made. 'Real warrandice' was an undertaking that if the grantee were to lose his right to what had been granted, then the granted would grant him something else of equal value.
Name Watch and clock maker	Term description One who makes and repairs watches and clocks
Name Watchmaker	Term description One who makes and repairs watches and clocks
Name Watchman	Term description Guard at specific premises, usually at night
Name Watchman in port	Term description Guard at specific premises, usually at night
Name Water in the heid	Term description Hydrocephalus
Name Water on the chest	Term description Pleurisy or pleural effusion
Name Waterman	Term description One who works by water and usually with boats
Name Waulker	Term description A fuller of cloth
Name Wax chandler	Term description Wax candle maker
Name Wax maker	Term description One who prepares wax for use in candles, etc.
Name Wean	Term description Child, little one
Name Weaver	Term description One who uses a loom to make cloth from yarn
Name Webster	Term description Weaver. One who uses a loom to make cloth from yarn
Name Weifar/weiffar	Term description One who uses a loom to make cloth from yarn
Name Weigh-house-man	Term description One who operates a weigh house for weighing goods for market