Bencher
[bentʃә]
Definition
(n.) One of the senior and governing members of an Inn of Court.
(n.) An alderman of a corporation.
(n.) A member of a court or council.
(n.) One who frequents the benches of a tavern; an idler.
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Examples
- Good things have been said about it by blue-nosed, bulbous-shoed old benchers in select port-wine committee after dinner in hall. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- The benchers determined to have his door broken open, as he hadn't paid any rent for two years. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
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