penman

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

PEN'MAN, noun plural penmen. [See Pen and Man.] 1. A man that professes or teaches the art of writing. More generally, 2. One that writes a good hand. 3. An author; a writer; as the sacred penmen.
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