Crossword-Solution: TAILERS 7 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 7

The other great guilds were the skinners, merchant tailers, haberdashers, salters, ironmongers, vintners, and clothworkers.

After the bell had ceased tolling, a number of strokes, called 'tailers,' indicated whether the death was of a child, a woman or a man; three for a child, nine for a man.

People counting would say, 'Nine tailers, that's a man,' which in time became colloquially 'Nine tailers make a man.' When the custom became obsolete the saying remained, its application was forgotten, _o_ was substituted for _e_ and it was used in derogation of a most worthy and necessary member of the body politic." Margaret Preston was very small, in explanation of which fact she told me there was a story that she had been tossed on the horns of a cow.

Sheep on the march have one invariable position, either among the leaders, middlers or tailers, and until each animal has found his exact post, nothing whatever can be done with him.

With the leaders safely over it was only a matter of time until the rest had followed, and by the time it was full day the last of the tailers were feeding in the opposite bottoms.