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quill-driver
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quill-driver

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Definition:
A clerk, scribe, or hackney writer.

Francis Grose. 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue.
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the druggest joked him about quill-drivers and the law.

Gustave Flaubert. Madame Bovary.
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Pierre now understood the count's dissatisfaction with the wording of the Note.
"One would have thought quill drivers enough had sprung up," remarked the old prince.

Leo Tolstoy. War and Peace.
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