Clerk /(klẽrk; in Eng. klärk; 277)/

Clerk

n.
  1. A clergyman or ecclesiastic. [Obs.]
    All persons were styled clerks that served in the church of Christ.
    — Ayliffe.
  2. A man who could read; a scholar; a learned person; a man of letters. [Obs.]
    He was no great clerk, but he was perfectly well versed in the interests of Europe.
  3. A parish officer, being a layman who leads in reading the responses of the Episcopal church service, and otherwise assists in it. [Eng.]
    And like unlettered clerk still cry “Amen”.
  4. One employed to keep records or accounts; a scribe; an accountant; as, the clerk of a court; a town clerk.
    The clerk of the crown . . . withdrew the bill.
    — Strype.
  5. An assistant in a shop or store. [U. S.]