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bencher

noun
/ˈbɛnt͡ʃɚ/

Etymology

From bench + -er.

  1. derived from *bʰeg-✻
  2. inherited from *bankiz✻ — “bench”
  3. inherited from *banki✻
  4. inherited from benċ — “bench”
  5. inherited from bench
  6. suffixed as bencher — “bench + er”

Definitions

  1. A senior member of a law society in a Canadian province (except New Brunswick).

  2. One of the senior governing members of an Inn of Court.

    • 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.

  3. An alderman of a corporation.

    • ten of them Aldermen, or chief Benchers
  4. ›+ 2 more definitions

    1. A member of a court or council.

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

    2. One who frequents the benches of a tavern

      One who frequents the benches of a tavern; an idler.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA