scribing

noun

1. a professional penman who copied manuscripts before the invention of printing
2. a writer or author
3. a person learned in the Jewish law who makes handwritten copies of the Torah
4. a person employed by the general public to write letters, etc.
5. a pointed instrument for scoring stone, brick, wood, etc. to show where it is to be cut
   also scriber

Origin: ME < L scriba, public writer, scribe, in LL(Ec), doctor of the Jewish law < scribere, to write < IE *skeribh- < base *(s)ker-, to cut, incise > shear

transitive verb scribed, scribing

1. to score (wood, bricks, etc.) with a scribe
2. to mark (a line) with a scribe

intransitive verb