pipe roll

noun

1. Also called: the Great Roll of the Exchequer. history an annual record of the accounts of a sheriff or other minister of the crown kept at the British Exchequer from the 12th to the 19th centuries

Word History and Origins

Origin of pipe roll¹

C17: from _pipe ¹ and _roll ; perhaps from documents being rolled into a pipe shape

Example Sentences

Richard Serra’s “Bent Pipe Roll,” from 1968, is a free-standing lead pipe that lies along the floor, angles upward through a cylindrical lead roll, then leans against the wall.

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Although it is unlike “Bent Pipe Roll,” “A Roll in the Way” was created with Mr. Serra in mind.

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And so Bishop Stubbs' conjecture as to the 'rusticus verberatus' in Pipe Roll, 31 Henry I, p.

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Piece of canvas:—Bristles for shoemaker's use, bullets, short clay pipe, roll of waxed twine, a wooden button, small piece of a port-fire, two charges of shot tied up in the finger of a kid glove, fragment of a seaman's blue serge frock.

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Half the annual revenue was payable at Easter, and at Michaelmas the balance was exacted, and the accounts made up for the year, and formally enrolled on the pipe roll.

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