I.q. test: (innocuous question).What's My Line? How many of your colleagues can identify these extinct jobs? 1. Whitesmith white·smith n. 1. One who works white metal. 2. One who does finish work, such as polishing, on iron. [white + (black)smith.] 2. Cotter a. Limner limner (lĭm`nər), the work of untrained, generally anonymous artists active in the English American colonies. Characteristic examples of their paintings show flat, awkward, often frontal figures in richly detailed costumes and landscape 4. Ostler 5. Cordwainer Cord´wain`er n. 1. A worker in cordwain, or cordovan leather; a shoemaker. 1. A smith works in metal; a whitesmith in tin and iron, there also are blacksmiths, tinsmiths, coppersmiths, gunsmiths. 2. A farm laborer who lives in a cottage. 3. One who illuminates manuscripts or draws or paints in publications. 4. An innkeeper, also "hostler." 5. Originally a worker in cordovan cor·do·van n. A fine leather originally made of goatskin but now more frequently of split horsehide. [Spanish cordován, from Córdova, Córdoba, Spain.] Noun 1. leather, but came to mean a shoemaker. |
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