pipe roll


noun
  1. 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: Also called: the Great Roll of the Exchequer

Origin of pipe roll

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

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