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 calledthe Great Roll of the Exchequer

Word History and Origins

Origin of pipe roll¹

C17: from pipe ¹and 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.

From New York Times

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

From New York Times

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

From Project Gutenberg

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.

From Project Gutenberg

Such expenses as appear on the pipe roll were paid by the sheriffs, or by the bailiffs of “honours”; payments out of the treasury itself would only appear on the receipt and issue rolls, and the “spending departments” probably drew their supplies from the camera curie, and not directly from the exchequer.

From Project Gutenberg