colloq. Also 8 clark. [f. prec. sb.] intr. To act as clerk. (Also to clerk it.) Hence Clerking vbl. sb. and ppl. a.
1551. Edw. VI., Polit. Ess., in Lit. Rem. (1857–8), II. 482. I meane not theis ferming gentlemen, nor clarking knightes.
1679. ‘Tom Ticklefoot,’ Trial Wakeman, 3. Why I should wave the Employment of Clerking to a Westminster Justice.
a. 1834. Lamb, Let. Bernard Barton, in Lett., xii. 114. I am very tired of clerking it.
1871. Carlyle, Lett., 9 Feb., in Standard (1881), 7 Feb., 6/4. Employments … for which women might be more or less fit—printing, tailoring, weaving, clerking, &c.
1885. Med. Times, II. 449. A student … of St. Bartholomew’s Hospital, where he clerked [acted as Clinical Clerk] under Peter Mere Latham.
