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bencher

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bench·er  (bnchr)
n.
1. One that sits on a bench.
2. Chiefly British A member of the inner or higher bar who acts as a governor of one of the Inns of Court.
3. One, such as a magistrate, who occupies a bench.
bencher [ˈbɛntʃə]
n (often plural) Brit
1. (Law) a member of the governing body of one of the Inns of Court, usually a judge or a Queen's Counsel
2. (Law / Parliamentary Procedure) See backbencher


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All this they read with saucer eyes, and erect and primitive curiosity, and with unwearied gizzard, whose corrugations even yet need no sharpening, just as some little four-year-old bencher his two-cent gilt-covered edition of Cinderella -- without any improvement, that I can see, in the pronunciation, or accent, or emphasis, or any more skill in extracting or inserting the moral.
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The benchers determined to have his door broken open, as he hadn't paid any rent for two years.
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