clerk of the pipe

noun

A person employed by the English Exchequer and its successors to work in the pipe office maintaining the pipe rolls on which government income and expenditure were recorded.

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Meanings

nounclerk of the pipe (plural clerks of the pipe)

plural clerks of the pipe

  1. historicalA person employed by the English Exchequer and its successors to work in the pipe office maintaining the pipe rolls on which government income and expenditure were recorded.
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Chicago

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