Brewer's: Manciple

(A). A purveyor of food, a clerk of the kitchen. Chaucer has a “manciple” in his Canterbury Tales. (Latin manceps, mancipis.)

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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