Medieval Town Vocab

Vocabulary

1. Town-an urban area that has a name, defined boundaries, and local government, and that is generally larger than a village and smaller than a city.
2. Charter-a written grant by a country's legislative or sovereign power, by which an institution such as a company, college, or city is created and its rights and privileges defined.
3. Guild-a medieval association of craftsmen or merchants, often having considerable power.
4. Guild hall-a town hall.
5. Journeyman-a trained worker who is employed by someone else.
6. Apprentice-a person who is learning a trade from a skilled employer, having agreed to work for a fixed period at low wages
7. Merchant- a person or company involved in wholesale trade, especially one dealing with foreign countries or supplying merchandise to a particular trade.
8. Barter-exchange (goods or services) for other goods or services without using money.
9. Carpenter- a person who makes and repairs wooden objects and structures.
10. Cobbler-a person who mends shoes as a job
11. Glover-a maker of gloves
12. Blacksmith-a person who makes and repairs things in iron by hand
13. Tinker-(especially in former times) a person who travels from place to place mending metal utensils as a way of making a living
14. Potter-British term for putter³.
15. Cooper-a maker or repairer of casks and barrels.
16. Wheel right (wheeler)-a person who makes or repairs wooden wheels.
17. Tanner-a person who tans animal hides, especially to earn a living
18. Weaver-a person who weaves fabric
19. Baker-a person who makes bread and cakes, especially commercially
20. Butcher-a person whose trade is cutting up and selling meat in a shop
21. Inn-an establishment providing accommodations, food, and drink, especially for travelers
22. Tavern-an establishment for the sale of beer and other drinks to be consumed on the premises, sometimes also serving food
23. Barber-a person who cuts hair, especially men's, and shaves or trims beards as an occupation.
24. Fuller-a person who fulls cloth
25. Miller-a person who owns or works in a grain mill.
26. Brewer-To make (ale or beer) from malt and hops by infusion, boiling, and fermentation
27. Stable-not likely to change or fail; firmly established.
28. Craft Guild-an association of workers of the same trade for mutual benefit.
29. Merchant guild- a local association of merchants directed towards international and interlocal trade.
30. Wattle and daub-a composite building material used for making walls, in which a woven lattice of wooden strips called wattle is daubed with a sticky material usually made of some combination of wet soil, clay, sand, animal dung and straw.

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