English Explanatory Dictionary

pipe roll

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Any of a collection of financial records maintained by the English Exchequer and its successors, the earliest dating from the 12th century.

Word forms

pipe roll pipe rolls

Etymology

Named from the cylindrical shape of the rolled-up parchments on which the records were originally written.

Related words

clerk of the pipe pipe office
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