scribe

IPA: skrˈaɪb

Someone who writes; a draughtsperson; a writer for another; especially, an official or public writer; an amanuensis, secretary, notary, or copyist.
A person who writes books or documents by hand as a profession.ᵂ
(informal) A journalist.
(archaic) A writer and doctor of the law; one skilled in the law and traditions; one who read and explained the law to the people.
A very sharp, steel drawing implement used in engraving and etching, a scriber.

To write.
To write, engrave, or mark upon; to inscribe.
To record, as a scribe.
To write or draw with a scribe.
(carpentry) To cut (something) in order to fit it closely to an irregular surface, as a baseboard to a floor which is out of level, a board to the curves of a moulding, etc.
To score or mark with compasses or a scribing iron.

Examples of "scribe" in Sentences

Surely this toadstool masquerading as a scribe is aware THAT THIS BOOK HAS ALREADY BEEN WRITTEN!
And a certain scribe came, and said unto him, Master, I will follow thee whithersoever thou goest.
A scribe is reading, from a papyrus scroll, a list of complaints against him, a diatribe of supposed crimes against his own empire.
It is not unknown how the name scribe was a general title given to all the learned part of that nation, as it is opposed to the rude and illiterate person.
In the hands of a Sorkin scribe of the day, I imagine Gutenberg would only be a weirdo: We don't trust what he's doing to our world, we don't understand it, so we don't like him.
Having served as one-third of the writing team for the immensely successful The Dark Knight, the scribe is already talking about future projects, namely his next directorial effort The Unborn, which is scheduled for 2009.
Originally the word scribe meant "scrivener"; but rapidly it was accepted as a matter of course that the scribe who copies the Law knows the Law best, and is its most qualified expounder: accordingly the word came to mean more than it implies etymologically.