Definitions of clerk

1. To act as clerk or salesman.

2. an employee who performs clerical work ( e. g., keeps records or accounts)

3. A clergyman or ecclesiastic.

4. A man who could read; a scholar; a learned person; a man of letters.

5. A parish officer, being a layman who leads in reading the responses of the Episcopal church service, and otherwise assists in it.

6. One employed to keep records or accounts; a scribe; an accountant; as, the clerk of a court; a town clerk.

7. An assistant in a shop or store.

8. ( orig.) A clergyman or priest: a scholar: one who reads the responses in the English Church service: in common use, one employed as a writer or assistant in an office.

9. CLERKSHIP.

10. One who responds to the priest in the English church; a writer or accountant.

11. One who keeps records or accounts; a secretary; a salesman.

12. Ang. Ch. One who leads in the responses.

13. A clergyman or ecclesiastic; a scholar; a layman who reads the responses in the church service, to direct the congregation; one employed in an office to assist in writing, keeping accounts, & c., one who keeps account, & c., of the proceedings of a public or associated body; an assistant shopman. See Clergy.

14. One engaged to write in an office or keep business books; a clergyman; a reader of responses in the church- service.