clerk of the pipe

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. 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.

Word forms

clerk of the pipe clerks of the pipe
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