List 4: agent verbs

A. occupations: (tr.) butcher the cow, jockey the horse, referee the game, umpire the match, nurse the patient, doctor the victim, ⁺nursemaid the baby, tutor the boys, valet the squire, pilot the ship, captain the destroyer, skipper the boat, police the park, guard the jewels, emcee the show, model the clothes, shepherd the sheep, vet the dog, ⁺general the army, ⁺agent a book, author the book, ⁺broker insurance, tailor the suit; (intr.) soldier, maid, butler, clown, smith, ⁺goldsmith, ⁺silversmith, ⁺carpenter, apprentice for a job, pioneer, ⁺buccaneer, ⁺pickpocket, ⁺gigolo, pimp, pander, ⁺chef, ⁺laundress [Dickens], ⁺blackleg, ⁺lawyer, ⁺pilot, priest, ⁺waitress, ⁺housewife (for a living).

B. special roles: (tr.) monitor an exam, referee the game, champion the cause, partner the host, usher the people to their seats, escort the ambassador, ⁺companion the queen, squire his cousin, chaperone his daughter, mother the child, sire the child, father the child, parent the children, husband someone, wife someone, ⁺uncle someone, lord it over people, queen it over her friends, ⁺god it, bully the children, boss the employee, ⁺chairman the department, master the horse, doctor the drinks, pirate the ship, lynch the prisoner, burke the man, jobe the crowd [archaic], filibuster the bill, ⁺to Beck (act badly, like Beck) [film review], volunteer the information, ⁺Ancient Mariner someone, ⁺heir the estate [Pope], ⁺fishwife each other, marshal the crowd, rival his cousins, spirit the man away, ⁺high-hat the guest, ⁺Rolf the patient, picket the factory, dragoon someone into doing something, ⁺housewife the money [Defoe], ⁺Don’t Bogart that joint [song], vaquero the cow [Herb Caen]; (intr.) ⁺flunkey for someone, ⁺soprano, star in a film, corpse in the last scene (acting), ⁺houseguest with the Joneses, clown around, ⁺racketeer, fool around, ⁺barbershop, clerk in a shop, slave over the work, ⁺post-doc with someone, minister to the needy, ⁺pundit at the meeting, chum up with him, buddy around together, ⁺one boy-one girl it, knight, gipsy, quarterback for the giants, vagabond in Europe, ⁺tourist through the East Coast, neighbor on, ⁺private-eye, gossip, ⁺lover, ⁺heroine, meander, ⁺man it out, ⁺he enfant-terrible’d gracefully.

С. animals: (tr.) ⁺fox the people, outfox his followers, parrot every word, dog the escapee, bird-dog the escapee, ⁺watchdog the house [Peanuts], hound the politician, ape the policeman, copycat the teacher, ferret out the burglar, squirrel away the money, buffalo the audience, wolf the food down, ⁺spaniel’d me at heels [Shakespeare]; (intr.) worm out of a commitment, chicken out of a fight, pig at the dinner-table, snake through the cars, duck down, leech (to, onto), rat on the fugitive, clam up, buck up, monkey with the door, hare down the road, ⁺rabbit along at 90 miles an hour (talk fast) [SF Chronicle], skylark, crane, beef about the food, ⁺moused along the parkside [Galsworthy], crow about something, ⁺peacocked about his ancestry [Galsworthy], ⁺cat it up the waterpipe.

Experiencer verbs (List 5) are apparently rare. Witness the accident is classified that way on the premise that witnesses do not watch accidents, but see them. As for boycott and badger, historically they meant ‘do the act one would do to Captain Boycott’ and ‘do the act a dog would do to a badger’.