Meaning of Bencher | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A senior member of a law society in a Canadian province (except New Brunswick).
   Canada
2. One of the senior governing members of an Inn of Court.
   British
3. An alderman of a corporation.
   UK, obsolete
4. A member of a court or council.
   obsolete
5. One who frequents the benches of a tavern; an idler.
   obsolete

Equivalents

Examples

“There is Pump Court and Fountain Court, with their hydraulic apparatus, but one never heard of a bencher disporting in the fountain; and can’t but think how many a counsel learned in the law of old days might have benefited by the pump.”

“ten of them Aldermen, or chief Benchers”

“Come, come, you are well understood to be a perfecter / giber for the table than a necessary bencher in the / Capitol.”

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