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