souter

plural souters

1. Northern EnglandScotlandA shoemaker or cobbler.

   He was a shoemaker, the creature, and called himself the Sutor, an old-fashioned name that folk laughed at.

   1932, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Sunset Song (A Scots Quair), Polygon, published 2006, page 31

   1 more example

   There is no work better than another to please God : to pour water , to wash dishes , to be a souter (cobbler) , or an apostle

   1527, William Tyndale, The Parable of the Wicked Mammon

plural Souters · alternative Soutar · alternative Soutter

1. A surname originating as an occupation.