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What does "scribe" mean?

Scribe: (Jewish Hist.) A writer and doctor of the law; one skilled in the law and traditions; one who read and explained the law to the people.

Additional senses

  1. 2.To write, engrave, or mark upon; to inscribe. Spenser.
  2. 3.(Carp.) To cut (anything) in such a way as to fit closely to a somewhat irregular surface, as a baseboard to a floor which is out of level, a board to the curves of a molding, or the like; -- so called because the workman marks, or scribe, with the compasses the line that he afterwards cuts.
  3. 4.To score or mark with compasses or a scribing iron. Scribing iron, an iron-pointed instrument for scribing, or marking, casks and logs.
  4. 5.To make a mark. With the separated points of a pair of spring dividers scribe around the edge of the templet. A. M. Mayer.

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