outer bar
or utter bar
a body of the junior counsel who sit and plead outside the dividing bar in the court, ranking below the King's Counsel or Queen's Counsel.
- Compare inner bar.
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How to use outer bar in a sentence
Whilst at anchor, awaiting the tide to cross the outer bar, our attendant pilot boat came to grief under our bows.
In Eastern Seas | J. J. SmithThe bay was gray and lonely, and the fish weirs along the outer bar were lost in the mist.
Cy Whittaker's Place | Joseph C. LincolnThe wide harbor and the sea that flashed beyond the outer bar were ruffled by a piping breeze out of the northeast.
Blackbeard: Buccaneer | Ralph D. PaineThe sand of the outer bar was dimpled and mottled like watered silk by the action of the waves.
Keziah Coffin | Joseph C. LincolnIt was upon this outer bar that we had struck, and the other boat experienced the same fate as ourselves.
British Dictionary definitions for outer bar
(in England) a collective name for junior barristers who plead from outside the bar of the court: Compare Queen's Counsel
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