Clerk

1. A man who could read; a scholar; a learned person; a man of letters.
2. A clergyman or ecclesiastic.
3. An assistant in a shop or store.
4. One employed to keep records or accounts; a scribe; an accountant; as, the clerk of a court; a town clerk.
5. A parish officer, being a layman who leads in reading the responses of the Episcopal church service, and otherwise assists in it.