bencher

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  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. UK
    — 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. UK,obsolete
    — ten of them Aldermen, or chief Benchers
  4. A member of a court or council. obsolete
    — Come, come, you are well understood to be a perfecter / giber for the table than a necessary bencher in the / Capitol.
  5. One who frequents the benches of a tavern; an idler. obsolete

词形变化

benchers plural

词汇关系

衍生词
benchership Royal Bencher

词源

From bench + -er.
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