Urban Vocabulary
- Town: a thickly populated area, usually smaller than a city and larger than a village, having fixed boundaries and certain local powers of government.
- Charter: a document, issued by a sovereign or state, outlining the conditions under which a corporation, colony, city, or other corporate body is organized, and defining its rights and privileges.
- Guild: an organization of persons with related interests, goals, etc., especially one formed for mutual aid or protection.
- Guild Hall: in Britain) the hall built or used by a guild or corporation for its assemblies; town hall.
- Journeyman: a person who has served an apprenticeship at a trade or handicraft and is certified to work at it assisting or under another person.
- Apprentice: a person who works for another in order to learn a trade
- Merchant: a person who buys and sells commodities for profit; dealer; trader.
- Barter: to trade by exchange of commodities rather than by the use of money.
- Carpenter: a person who builds or repairs wooden structures, as houses, scaffolds, or shelving.
- Cobbler: a person who mends shoes.
- Glover: a person who makes or sells gloves.
- Blacksmith: a person who forges objects of iron.
- Tinker: a mender of pots, kettles, pans, etc., usually an itinerant.
- Potter: a person who makes pottery.
- Cooper: a person who makes or repairs casks, barrels, etc.
- Wheel Right (wheeler): a person who makes wheels; wheelwright.
- Tanner: a person whose occupation it is to tan hides.
- Weaver: a person who weaves.
- Baker: a person who weaves.
- Butcher: a retail or wholesale dealer in meat.
- Inn: a commercial establishment that provides lodging, food, etc., for the public, especially travelers; small hotel.
- Tavern: a commercial establishment that provides lodging, food, etc., for the public, especially travelers; small hotel.
- Barber: a person whose business is cutting men's hair and shaving or trimming beards and curing illness
- Fuller: a person who fulls cloth.
- Miller: a person who owns or operates a mill, especially a mill that grinds grain into flour.
- Brewer: a person who owns or operates a mill, especially a mill that grinds grain into flour.
- Stable: a building for the lodging and feeding of horses, cattle, etc.
- Craft guild :an association of workers of the same trade for mutual benefit.
- Wattle and Daub: Wattle: Often, wattles. a number of rods or stakes interwoven with twigs or tree branches for making fences, walls, etc. Daub: to cover or coat with soft, adhesive matter, as plaster or mud
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