A sapper. Someone who digs beneath a structure, weakening it to the point of collapse.
"Blesse our poore Virginity from underminers and blowers up."
William Shakespeare, All's Well That Ends Well (1601).
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A daily calendar of the world's oldest professions
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- Richard Voorhees
- Voorhees' unabridged dictionary of "The World's Oldest Professions" is available on Amazon and at http://www.rgvoorhees.com. Follow him on Twitter @richvoorhees.
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September
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- Swearer
- Fine, Unmarked Paper from the Royal Provisioner
- Locker
- Necromancers
- A Tongue-Tied Dumb Brick and Oratory
- Speaking Dutch Fustian
- Groom-Grubbers
- Oysterwives
- Pert as a Pearmonger
- Bank Cashier
- A Caliph and the Room of the Tree
- Name Callers
- Raftsmen
- Alone Among Modern Dictators
- The Crash of the Speculator
- Jolly as a Sand-boy
- Prescott on Incan Oracles
- Cato on Overseers
- Princes and Grooms
- Auri sacra fames
- Proust on Doctors
- Hucksters
- Underminers
- Thoreau on a Canadian Woodchopper
- Dealers in Poison
- Waster
- Panter
- Fire-Eater
- Diviner
- Count of the Sacred Largesses
- Berserk
- Oeconomus
- An Infamous Set of Engrossers
- Staff Officers
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This is a GREAT one!
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