A scholar Hence, beau-clerc (See above, Clerical Titles ) All the clerks, I mean the learned ones, in Christian kingdoms, Have their free voices Shakespeare: Henry VIII , ii 2 St Nicholas's Clerks Thieves An equivoque on the word Nick I think there came prancing down the hill a couple of St Nicholas's clerks - Rowley: Match at Midnight, 1633 Clerk-ale and Church-ale Mr Douce says the word ale is used in such composite words as bride-ale, clerk-ale, church-ale, lamb-ale, Midsummer-ale, Scot-ale, Whitsun-ale, etc , for revel or feast, ale being the chief liquor given The multitude call Church-ale Sunday their revelyng day, which day is spent in bulbeatings, bearbeating, dicying, and drunkenness - W Kethe (1570) Clerkenwell (London) means the Clerks'-well, where the parish clerks of London used to assemble yearly to play some sacred piece
The Chief Executive Officer of any Grove This person is elected from the Grove (or, where there is a nest, from the nest) and is the main spokesperson, record keeper, correspondent, etc , for the Grove The Clerk serves for a year and a day, and may serve up to three terms consecutively
Officer of court who files pleadings, motions, judgments, etc , issues process, and keeps records of court proceedings A law clerk assists an attorney or judge with legal research, brief writing, and other legal tasks Is commonly a recent law school graduate or law student
The person employed by the principal auctioneer or auction firm to record what is sold and to whom and for what price
CDS: The software that provides an interface between client applications and CDS servers The clerk receives a request from an application, sends the request to a CDS server, and returns any resulting information to the application The clerk saves (caches) the results of lookups so that it does not have to repeatedly go to a CDS server for the same information DTS: A software component that synchronizes the clock for its client system by requesting time values from servers, computing a new time from the values, and supplying the computed time to client applications