scribe

noun

• 1 historical a person who copies out documents, especially one employed to do this before printing was invented.
• informal, often humorous a writer, especially a journalist.

• 2 historical a Jewish recordkeeper or, later, a professional theologian and jurist.

• 3 (also scribe awl) a pointed instrument used for making marks on wood, bricks, etc., to guide a saw or in signwriting.

verb

• 1chiefly literary write:he scribed a note that he passed to Dan

• 2mark with a pointed instrument: mark the position of the lock body on the door edge, then scribe a centre mark