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One churchman or another bottling gas (6)

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I believe the answer is:

deacon

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'one churchman' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)

'another bottling gas' is the wordplay.
'another' becomes 'dean' (I can't explain this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'bottling' means one lot of letters goes inside another (bottling is a kind of containing).
'gas' becomes 'co' (CO is carbon monoxide).
'dean' going around 'co' is 'DEACON'.

'or' acts as a link.

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(Other definitions for deacon that I've seen before include "Layman attending to church duties" , "Clergyman of low rank" , "Cleric ranking just below a priest in Christian churches" , "Cleric - canoed (anag)" , "Rank of clergy" .)

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