soap-makern.
One who makes soap; a soap-boiler.
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society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > producer > soap-maker > [noun]
soaper?c1225
soap-maker1483
soap-boiler1594
soapman1813
1483 Cath. Angl. 318/1 A Sape maker.., saponarius.
1558 W. Ward tr. G. Ruscelli Secretes Alexis of Piemount f. 41 Take Sope makers water, and boyle it vntill it..become as it were an oyntment.
1598 A. M. tr. J. Guillemeau Frenche Chirurg. 41 b/1 Take Sope~makers lye, two pounde, Vitriol three ownces.
1634 in R. Sanderson Rymer's Fœdera (1732) XIX. 506 That no Soap-maker whatsoever presume to put any Soap to sale, which shall not be so marked.
1652 (title) The Soapmakers Complaint for the Losse of their Trade by Reason of a double excise.
1780 Westm. Mag. Suppl. 730/1 John Shand, Coldbath-fields, soap-maker.
1839 A. Ure Dict. Arts 1142 Three such boils may be given in..one day's work, by an active soap-maker.
1861 Eng. Cycl., Arts & Sci. VII. 636 The carbonic acid is driven off for the soap-maker's purposes.
Derivatives
soap-making n.
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society > occupation and work > industry > manufacturing processes > soap-making > [noun]
soap-making1603
soap-boiling1634
1603 J. Stow Suruay of London (new ed.) 253 I haue not read or heard of Sope making in this Cittie till within this fourescore yeares.
1634 in R. Sanderson Rymer's Fœdera (1732) XIX. 507 Other persons..who..have set up a Trade of Soap making as for themselves.
1857 W. A. Miller Elements Chem. III. vi. §1. 359 It is this [mucilaginous oil] which is chiefly employed in soap-making.
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