(UK, legal, historical) A chancery officer who prepared and fitted wax for sealing writs and other documents.
(UK, legal, historical) A chancery officer who prepared and fitted wax for sealing writs and other documents. The job remained until the 19th century.
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(UK, historical) An officer who attends upon the Lord Chancellor with the mace, and who executes various writs of process in the course of a Chancery suit.