#albier

• Trough maker — A craftsman specialized in carving and manufacturing wooden troughs, bowls, or other large wooden vessels used in traditional households; a person who sold these wooden items. This traditional rural occupation typically utilized softwoods, such as willow or poplar.
• Wooden trough maker — Old regional form or archaism sporadically found in western chancery documents, denoting a craftsman specialized in making wooden troughs, basins, or tubs hand-carved from a single tree trunk; trough-maker. Secondarily, the term could also indicate a forestry worker responsible for the rough shaping of wood.