Thursday, May 5, 2016

Define these Vocab.                        

                           Vocabulary:


1) Town: the central part of a neighborhood, with its business or shopping area



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:  building used as the meeting place of a guild or corporation.



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 jggob.



11)Glover: a maker of gloves. 



12)Blacksmith: a person who makes and repairs things in iron by hand



13)Tinker:  a person who travels from place to place mending metal utensils as a way of making a living.



14)Potter: British term for putter



15)Copper:  a red-brown metal, the chemical element of atomic number 29.



16)Wheel right(wheeler): a vehicle having a specified number of 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: a person whose trade is cutting up and selling meat in a shop



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 : control the practice of their craft in a particular town. The earliest types of guild were formed as confraternities of tradesmen.



30)Wattle and Daub: Watter: a material for making fences, walls, etc., consisting of rods or stakes interlaced with twigs or branches. Daub: coat or smear (a surface) with a thick or sticky substance in a carelessly rough or liberal way.






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