manciple
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Here are some of them: manual, manoeuver, mandate, manacle, manicure, manciple, emancipate, manage, manner, manipulate, manufacture, manumission, manuscript, amanuensis.
From The Century Vocabulary Builder by Joseph M. (Joseph Morris) Bachelor
The manciple was to pro- vide all wine and mead, the keeping up the stock of earthenware cups, jugs, basins, and other vessels, together with the lamps and oil.
From The Coming of the Friars by Augustus Jessopp
A doctor of physic, a cook, a poor parson, a ploughman, a reeve, or estate agent, a manciple, and two disgraceful characters—a summoner and a pardoner—make up the total of the company.
From The Dover Road Annals of an Ancient Turnpike by Charles G. Harper
I had, indeed, took the liberty of telling the manciple that you was not a gentleman to give more trouble than you could 'elp.
From The Ship of Stars by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
"And yet this manciple made them fools, I wot."
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol 58, No. 357, July 1845 by Various
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