[See -ING2.] That copies; engaged in transcription, as in copying clerk.
1876. Gladstone, Homeric Synchr., 56. I deny that the Poet is but the copying clerk of the actual world.
1882. Besant, Revolt of Man, xiv. 346. They were chiefly turned into copying-clerks, the lowest and the meanest of all handicrafts.
