(1):
(n.) An assistant in a shop or store.
(2):
(n.) A man who could read; a scholar; a learned person; a man of letters.
(3):
(n.) A parish officer, being a layman who leads in reading the responses of the Episcopal church service, and otherwise assists in it.
(4):
(n.) One employed to keep records or accounts; a scribe; an accountant; as, the clerk of a court; a town clerk.
(5):
(n.) A clergyman or ecclesiastic.