1632. Sherwood, A smearer, patrouilleur.
1881. Instruct. Census Clerks (1885), 78. Fur Dyeing…. Smearer. Grounder.
1884. J. Tait, in United Presbyt. Mag., April, 156/2. He was likewise to maintain the herd of Greatmoor, and the smearers of the sheep, for which he was to have the first twenty dead hoggs after they were smeared.
