Warman represent Mid. Eng, wa[thorn]eman, hunter; cf. the
common German surname Weidemann, of cognate origin. Reader and Booker
are not always literary. The former is for Reeder, a thatcher--

"Redare of howsys, calamator, arundinarius" (Prompt. Parv.)--

and the latter is a Norman variant of Butcher, as already mentioned.

SPELLING OF TRADE-NAMES

The spelling of occupative surnames often differs from that now
associated with the trade itself. In Naylor, Taylor, and Tyler we
have the archaic preference for y. [Footnote: It may be noted here
that John Tiler of Dartford, who killed a tax-gatherer for insulting
his daughter, was not Wat Tiler, who was killed at Smithfield for
insulting the King. The confusion between the two has led to much
sympathy being wasted on a ruffian.] Our ancestors thought sope as
good a spelling as soap, hence the name Soper. A Plummer, i.e. a man
who worked in lead, Lat. plumbum, is now written, by etymological
reaction, plumber, though the restored letter is not sounded. A man
who dealt in 'arbs originated the name Arber, which we should now
replace by herbalist. We have a restored spelling in clerk, though
educated people pronounce the word as it was once written

"Clarke, or he that readeth distinctly, clericus." (Holyoak's Lat.
Dict., 1612.)

In many cases we are unable to say exactly what is the ocpupation
indicated. We may assume that a Setter and a Tipper did setting and
tipping, and both are said to have been concerned in the arrow
industry. If this is true, I should say that Setter might represent
the Old Fr, saieteur, arrow-maker, from saiete, an arrow, Lat.
sagitta. But in a medieval vocabulary we find "setter of mes,
dapifer," which would make it the same as Sewer (Chapter XV).
Similarly, when we consider the number of objects that can be tipped,
we shall be shy of defining the activity of the Tipper too closely.
Trinder, earlier trenden, is from Mid. Eng. trender, to roll (cf.
Roller). In the west country trinder now means specifically a
wool-winder--

"Lat hym rollen and trenden withynne hymself the lyght of his ynwarde
sighte" (Boece, 1043).

There are also some names of this class to which we can with certainty
attribute two or more origins. Boulter means a maker of bolts for
crossbows, [Footnote: How many people who use the expression "bolt
upright," associate it with "straight as a dart"?] but also a sifter,
from the obsolete verb to bolt--

"Th