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Name	Term description
Name H and G	Term description House and Garden
Name H.L.W.	Term description Handloom weaver
Name Haberdasher	Term description A person who sells small sewing goods, threads, buttons etc.
Name Hackler/heckler	Term description A person who carries out the early stages of preparing raw fibre (for example Jute and flax) for spinning. Hackle-pins and fluted rollers were used to comb and soften the fibre and, in the case of jute, an emulsion of oil and water (whale oil until the late 19th century) was applied to assist the process.
Name Hackney-coachman	Term description One who drives a hackney coach or coach for hire
Name Hair merchant	Term description One who deals in hair
Name Hair-dresser	Term description One who arranges hair
Name Half-timer/ht scholar	Term description A child who spends half the day in factory school and the other half working in the factory. Dundee was the last city in Scotland to abolish half-time working, in 1918.
Name Halket kyne	Term description Spotted cows. For more information, see our guide to agricultural produce and livestock.
Name Hammerman	Term description A person who operates a hammer for example In a blacksmith's, or shipyard, or a steam hammer in a foundry
Name Hankings	Term description Constricted chest as part of a cold.
Name Harnessmaker	Term description One who makes leather harness for horses, oxen, etc.
Name Hat maker	Term description One who makes hats and other headgear
Name Hat manufacturer	Term description One who makes hats and other headgear
Name Hatmaker	Term description One who makes hats and other headgear
Name Hatter	Term description One who makes hats and other headgear
Name Hawker	Term description A person who goes round houses or streets selling their wares
Name Head miller	Term description One who works at a mill
Name Heckilmaker/hecklemaker	Term description Flax-comb maker
Name Heelmaker	Term description One who makes separate heels for fitting to shoes
Name Heidmouldshot	Term description A condition in which the bones of the infant skull overlap, often accompanied by hydrocephalus.
Name Heidwark	Term description Headache
Name Heilmaker	Term description One who makes separate heels for fitting to shoes
Name Heirs	Term description Can come in various forms. The heir general is on who succeeds to both the heritable and moveable property of a deceased person, who also happens to be that person's heir at law and heir by normal course of succession (his heir of line); the heir of provision, on the other hand, is one who succeeds by virtue of the terms of a settlement or some express provision; 'heir special' refers to the right of an heir to receive infeftment in particular lands, and heirs portioners are women who succeed jointly to heritable property; see also apparent heir.
Name Heirship moveables	Term description Certain moveable goods (generally the best) belonging to the deceased, to which the heir in heritage (normally the eldest son) was entitled by law.