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Bencher   Listen
noun
Bencher  n.  
1.
(Eng. Law) One of the senior and governing members of an Inn of Court.
2.
An alderman of a corporation. (Eng.)
3.
A member of a court or council. (Obs.)
4.
One who frequents the benches of a tavern; an idler. (Obs.)






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"Bencher" Quotes from Famous Books



... he entered parliament, sitting for Taunton, and also became a bencher at Gray's Inn; so that at twenty-six he was in full practice in the courts of Westminster, also a politician, speaking on almost every question of importance which agitated the House of Commons for twenty ...
— Beacon Lights of History, Volume VI • John Lord



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