"quill-driver" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "quill-drivers",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "quill-driver (plural quill-drivers)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1791, Charlotte Smith, Celestina, Broadview, published 2004, page 263",
          "text": "His brother, enraged at this insult, spoke to him very freely, which he returned no otherwise than by calling him quill-driver, and maccaroni of Mincing-lane.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1803, John Davis, Travels of Four Years and a Half in the United States of America: During 1798, 1799, 1800, 1801, and 1802, page 439",
          "text": "Passenger.—What o'clock is it?\nMr. Adams.—That's not proper language for a ship. It becomes only a quill-driver, a grass-comber, or a sugar-baker.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1900, Joseph Conrad, Lord Jim, page v. 36",
          "text": "He wouldn't be terrified with a pack of lies by a cocky half-bred little quill-driver.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A clerk or hack writer; a pen-pusher."
      ],
      "id": "en-quill-driver-en-noun-ZCt2-ePb",
      "links": [
        [
          "clerk",
          "clerk"
        ],
        [
          "writer",
          "writer"
        ],
        [
          "pen-pusher",
          "pen-pusher"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(colloquial) A clerk or hack writer; a pen-pusher."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "colloquial"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "quill-driver"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "quill-drivers",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "quill-driver (plural quill-drivers)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English colloquialisms",
        "English countable nouns",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1791, Charlotte Smith, Celestina, Broadview, published 2004, page 263",
          "text": "His brother, enraged at this insult, spoke to him very freely, which he returned no otherwise than by calling him quill-driver, and maccaroni of Mincing-lane.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1803, John Davis, Travels of Four Years and a Half in the United States of America: During 1798, 1799, 1800, 1801, and 1802, page 439",
          "text": "Passenger.—What o'clock is it?\nMr. Adams.—That's not proper language for a ship. It becomes only a quill-driver, a grass-comber, or a sugar-baker.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1900, Joseph Conrad, Lord Jim, page v. 36",
          "text": "He wouldn't be terrified with a pack of lies by a cocky half-bred little quill-driver.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A clerk or hack writer; a pen-pusher."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "clerk",
          "clerk"
        ],
        [
          "writer",
          "writer"
        ],
        [
          "pen-pusher",
          "pen-pusher"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(colloquial) A clerk or hack writer; a pen-pusher."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "colloquial"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "quill-driver"
}