What s My Line?
How many of your colleagues can identify these extinct jobs?
1. Whitesmith
2. Cotter
3. Limner
4. Ostler
5. Cordwainer
Robert Lester Porter, CPA
| 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 leather, but came to mean a shoemaker. |